Atkins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
3
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Graham v. Connor · Rakas v. Illinois
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y its own language, Brendlin does not address whether a passenger can challenge the legality of a search of the vehicle in which he is a passenger”
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.