Adams v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
155 federal appellate · 21 district · 312 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 609 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Engle v. Isaac (1982), United States v. Johnson (1982)
155 federal appellate · 21 district · 312 state decisions — followed in 39 states
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno
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 609 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have given complete retroactive effect to the new rule, regardless of good faith reliance by law enforcement authorities or the degree of impact on the administration of justice, where the 'major purpose of new constitutional doctrine is to overcome an aspect of the criminal trial that substantially impairs its truth-finding function and so raises serious questions about the accuracy of guilty verdicts in past trials . . .' Williams v. United States, 401 U.S. 646 , 653, 91 S.Ct. 1148, 1152, 28 L.Ed.2d 388 (1971).”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) the purpose to be served by the new standards, (b) the extent of the reliance by law enforcement authorities on the old standards, and (c) the effect on the administration of justice of a retroactive application of the new standards.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Valles v. State · McKeldin v. Rose“the lack of counsel at a preliminary hearing involves less danger to the integrity of the truth-determining process at trial than the omission of counsel at the trial itself or on appeal.”
2 later decisions 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.