Adams v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Campbell v. Louisiana (1998), Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Mineta (2001)
9 federal appellate · 28 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Mapp v. Ohio · Hanson v. Denckla · Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts · PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was either addressed by or properly presented to the state court that rendered the decision we have been asked to review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“fail to cite the Federal Constitution or any cases relying on the Fourteenth Amendment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“meet our minimal requirement that it must be clear that a federal claim was presented”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.