Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 2017
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State · Hopkins v. Reeves · 667 So. 2d 1242 - Ballenger v. State · 708 So. 2d 18 - Underwood 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rationale for admitting evidence of certain closely related acts is that the prosecution has a legitimate interest in telling a rational and coherent story of what happened.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[w]hen the charged crime and prior crime or bad act are so interwoven as to form a series of occurrences,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“to tell the complete story so as not to confuse the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.