Adams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Scott v. State (2012), Booth v. State (2017)
40 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Robinson v. State · Smith v. Francis · James v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prosecutor’s comments with which appellant takes issue are permissible since they are the conclusion the prosecutor wished the jury to draw from the evidence, and not a statement of the prosecutor’s personal belief as to the [defendant’s guilt]. Accordingly, counsel’s failure to object to these comments during argument was not deficient performance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e accept the trial court's factual findings and credibility determinations unless clearly erroneous, but we independently apply the legal principles to the facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must overcome the strong presumption that counsel's performance fell within a wide range of reasonable professional conduct.”
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.