State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 150 state decisions

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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) Whether the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor; (2) Whether the evidence supports the jury’s or judge’s finding of a statutory aggravating circumstance ...; (3) Whether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime, the strength of the evidence, and the defendant.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Davis · State v. Baumruk

2. “In the future, trial courts should similarly consider strikes based on occupation carefully, assessing them for pretext by looking at whether the occupation and the claimed traits relate to the particular case or juror, whether similarly situated jurors are treated differently, and so forth, considering the factors set out above, and not allow a strike to rest solely on the claim that the juror is "a postal worker." [18]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Highler v. State · State v. McFadden

3. “[a] trial court's denial of a requested sanction is an abuse of discretion only where the admission of the evidence results in fundamental unfairness to the defendant.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Missouri v. Danielle Ann Zuroweste · 372 F. Supp. 3d 800 - Taylor v. Steele