Adams v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
356 federal appellate · 21 district · 1,885 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,917 later decisions (60 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Wainwright v. Witt (1985), Darden v. Wainwright (1986)
356 federal appellate · 21 district · 1,885 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Beck v. Alabama
Cited together with Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Strickland v. Washington · Lockett v. Ohio · Gregg v. Georgia
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 2,917 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties as a juror in accordance with his instructions and his oath.”
259 later decisions quote this exact passage“`prevent or substantially impair the performance of [his] duties as a juror in accordance with his instructions and oath.'”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The District Court committed reversible error when it compelled Juror [named juror] to swear that the mandatory penalty of death or life imprisonment would not affect his deliberations on any fact issue."”
4 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.