Adams v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• hearsay evidence concerning treating physician’s opinion of victim’s medical condition inadmissible before the grand jury without a showing of compelling justification
• grand jury did not have enough evidence properly before it to indict defendant and so indictment was invalid
• “If we were to find that a trial could validate an otherwise invalid indictment, the right to indictment by a grand jury would become a nullity and the grand jury would cease to operate as a check upon the district attorney’s power to initiate prosecution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Putnam v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-12-19· cited 45×
• Preston v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-08-08· cited 44×
• Ingram v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-07-19· cited 30×
• Castillo v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-07-11· cited 29×
• Sheldon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1990-07-27· cited 25×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1983-04-29· cited 19×
• Atchak v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1981-08-27· cited 18×
• Willett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1992-07-31· cited 18×
• Harker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1981-12-10· cited 17×
• Panther v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1989-09-22· cited 17×
• Malloy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2000-06-16· cited 14×
• Spencer v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-05-02· cited 7×
• O'Leary v. Superior Court, Third Judicial District
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1991-08-09· cited 5×
• Shakespeare v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1992-03-06· cited 4×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1982-10-08· cited 2×
• State v. Dunten
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1990-01-26· cited 2×
• State of Alaska v. The Estate of Harry Powell
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2025-01-24· cited 1×
• Wassillie v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2018-02-16
• Chad Alan Zurlo v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2022-02-18
• Martin C. Smith v. State of Alaska
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2024-04-26

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Haldeman
  D.C. Circuit· 1976-10-12· cited 661×
• Doe v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-07-09· cited 119×
• McKinnon v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-08-30· cited 86×
• State v. Tyler
  Washington Supreme Court· 1970-03-05· cited 60×
• Fuller v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1977-09-01· cited 57×
• Beavers v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-12-30· cited 52×
• State v. Gieffels
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-08-27· cited 43×
• Galauska v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-10-25· cited 41×
• The People v. Harrison
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1946-11-20· cited 40×
• Berfield v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1969-10-01· cited 33×
• State v. Shelton
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1962-01-11· cited 32×
• State v. Johnson
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-08-16· cited 31×
• Yarbor v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-02-23· cited 27×
• United States v. Earl Cook
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-04-03· cited 24×
• McCurry v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-07-14· cited 23×
• Peterkin v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1975-12-01· cited 23×
• Webb v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1974-10-14· cited 20×
• Trustees of the Monroe Avenue Church of Christ v. Perkins
  Supreme Court· 1948-05-10· cited 18×
• Ransom v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1969-11-03· cited 16×
• State v. Wilson
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1959-02-25· cited 16×