State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Hines v. State (1954), State v. BRITT (1959)
26 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“everything depicted by the photograph was . . . testified to in detail by the witnesses”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Collins
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.