State v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4,364 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,379 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Blakemore v. Blakemore (1983), State v. Xie (1992)
5 federal appellate · 4,364 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Mullaney v. Wilbur · State v. Long · Universal Builders, Inc. v. Clark · 137 Ohio St. 448 - Steiner v. Custer
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Thompkins · Blakemore v. Blakemore · State v. Jenks · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin
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 4,379 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`abuse of discretion' connotes more than an error of law or judgment; it implies that the court's attitude is unreasonable, arbitrary or unconscionable.”
399 later decisions quote this exact passage““A person acts recklessly when, with heedless indifference to the consequences, he perversely disregards a known risk that his conduct is likely to cause a certain result or is likely to be of a certain nature. A person is reckless with respect to circumstances when, with heedless indifference to the consequences, he perversely disregards a known risk that such circumstances are likely to exist.””
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“As a general rule, a defendant is entitled to have the jury instructed on all elements that must be proved to establish the crime with which he is charged.”
16 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.