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.

• both holding that the need to protect children outweighs the policy of protecting the marriage relationship and abrogating the marital privilege
• “the wrong to the child is equally a wrong to the observing spouse”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

32 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Howell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-11-10· cited 552×
• State v. Thacker
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2005-04-27· cited 449×
• State v. Melson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1982-08-16· cited 438×
• State v. Winters
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2003-11-07· cited 387×
• State v. Bush
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-04-07· cited 308×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-11-12· cited 217×
• State v. Powers
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2003-01-06· cited 196×
• State v. Hurley
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1994-04-11· cited 106×
• Lackey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1978-11-21· cited 100×
• State v. Garland
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1981-02-10· cited 94×
• State v. Kyger
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1989-09-27· cited 91×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-04-21· cited 91×
• State v. Simon
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1982-06-01· cited 69×
• State v. Gosnell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-03-20· cited 52×
• State v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2001-11-15· cited 40×
• Johnson v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1992-11-03· cited 37×
• People v. Burton
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-11-25· cited 27×
• People v. Trzeciak
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2014-03-31· cited 19×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1979-06-20· cited 17×
• Ledune v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1979-05-17· cited 11×