Adcock v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Neal (2002), 145 N.C. App. 570 - State v. Harris (2001)
71 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3109
Relies on Ornelas v. United States · Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Wilson v. Arkansas · Richards v. Wisconsin · Conrade v. United States
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the findings of fact are supported by substantial evidence, as we conclude they are herein, the question necessarily becomes, “whether the rule of law as applied to the established facts is or is not violated.” Ornelas v. United States, 517 U.S. 690, 697 , 116 S.Ct. 1657, 1662 , 134 L.Ed.2d 911 (1996) (citing Pullman-Standard v. Swint, 456 U.S. 273, 289, n. 19 , 102 S.Ct. 1781, 1791, n. 19 , 72 L.Ed.2d 66 (1982).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There are three types of interaction between police and citizens: consensual encounters, temporary detentions generally referred to as Terry stops, [5] and arrests. The protection against search and seizure provided by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution applies only to the latter two types.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he guiding factor in determining whether a ruse entry, to execute a search warrant, constitutes a `breaking' under the Fourth Amendment should be whether the tactic frustrates the purposes of the `knock and announce' rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.