State v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 1985
22 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
Relies on Connally v. General Construction Co. · State v. Joas · State v. Nelson · State v. Pocras · James H. Johnson v. James Bartron, Jr.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of a further requirement that the operation of the vehicle be ‘negligent’ or ‘careless’ or some similar specification, we think the statute fails to prescribe an ascertainable standard of guilt.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Merithew · State v. Hagge““A person who drives a vehicle on a highway carelessly, or without due caution and circumspection, in a manner so as to endanger, or be iikely to endanger, a person or property, shall be guilty of careless driving.” R.S.Cum.Supp. 39:4-97 [New Jersey], “It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle in a negligent manner over and along the public highways of this state. For the purpose of this section to ‘operate in a negligent manner’ shall be construed to mean the operation of a vehicle upon the public highways of this state in such a manner as to endanger or be likely to endanger any persons or property. “The offense of operating a vehicle in a negligent manner shall be considered to be a lesser offense than, but included in, the offense of operating a vehicle in a reckless manner, and any person charged with operating a vehicle in a reckless manner may be convicted of the lesser offense of operating a vehicle in a negligent manner. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be punished upon conviction in the same manner provided in Section 49-562, Idaho Code.” I.C. Sec. 49-562A, 1951 S.L., c. 256, p. 555 [Idaho], “Any person or persons who shall operate a vehicle upon any highway in such a manner as to (1) endanger the safety of others or (2) cause immoderate wear or damage to any highway, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hu”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hagge“It is a fundamental requirement of due process of law that a criminal statute be reasonably clear and definite. * * * A crime must be defined with sufficient definiteness and there must be ascertainable standards of guilt to inform those subject thereto as to what conduct will render them liable to punishment thereunder. The dividing line between what is lawful and unlawful cannot be left to conjecture. * * A statute which forbids the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning, and differ as to its application, violates the first essential of due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cialkowski
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.