Adams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
March 2006
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 262nd Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Andrews v. State · Mulder v. State · Basham v. State · Writt v. State · Boening 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No plea of guilty or plea of nolo con-tendere shall be accepted by the trial court unless it appears that the defendant is mentally competent and the plea is free and voluntary.”
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.