People v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1950
3 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no error in the instructions of the court laying down the law of self-defense. The whole theory of the defense was that the killing was necessary, not for the purpose of making the arrest, -but to prevent Collins from killing the defendant. The defendant himself confines his justification to that ground. And, even if he had also made a serious claim that the killing was necessary in order to effect the arrest, it would have been proper and necessary to give the law of self-defense complete, and in doing so to use the expression complained of, viz., that the defendant ‘must have acted under the influence of such fears alone,’ confining its application, of course, to this ground of defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Santana
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.