Adams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1986
19 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence tended to prove that these illicit relations, constituting incest, commenced six or seven years before the finding of the indictment, and continued to the time when the act for which he was indicted was committed. This evidence, although it discloses other acts of incest with the same niece, the indictment for which is barred by the statute of limitations, is admissible for the purpose of showing the probability of the commission of the offense charged, and sustains the evidence of such offense. Commonwealth v. Bell, 166 Pa. St. 405.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cannon v. State
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.