Adams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Whitlow v. State (2008), State v. Gunderson (2010)
65 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 Strickland v. Washington · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Chapman v. State of California · Blakely v. Washington · Barker v. Wingo
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A criminal defendant is entitled to jury instructions that cover an issue or theory if there is evidence to support such an instruction. It is fundamental under Montana law that "a defendant is entitled to a jury instruction on a lesser included offense when one of the parties requests it and the record contains evidence from which the jury could rationally find the defendant guilty of the lesser offense and acquit of the greater."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Schmidt“It appears to be the better rule to allow an appellate court to review any sentence imposed in a criminal case, if it is alleged that such sentence is illegal or exceeds statutory mandates, even if no objection is made at the time of sentencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Haldane“those that are caused by overcrowded court dockets and other similar events”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kurtz
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.