Adams v. Bolin’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Cohen v. State (1978), Continental Forest Products, Inc. v. Chandler Supply Co. (1974)
4 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Collins v. Krucker · Earhart v. Frohmiller · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. State · Hicks v. Krigbaum · Territory of Arizona ex rel. Sherman v. Board of Supervisors
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`In the construction of a statute, it is the intent and purpose of the law, not the letter, that must control, and the whole statute must be considered.' * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harless v. Lockwood“It is fundamental that statutes are not interpreted piecemeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harless v. Lockwood
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.