Adams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2002
6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 354th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Griffith v. Kentucky · Keeton v. State · Henry v. State · Rodgers v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State may, but should not be required to explain the reasons for its exercise of peremptory strikes merely out of an abundance of caution, but only after a finding of prima facie discrimination has been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State
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.