Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 9 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 1984 · most notably Mulcahy v. State (1960), Stevenson v. State (1980)
6 federal appellate · 9 district · 21 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.
Relationships
Relies on Brinegar v. United States · Freedman 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Brinegar v. U. S., 338 U.S. 160 , at pages 175-176, 69 S. Ct. 1302 , at pages 1310, 1311, 93 L.Ed. 1879 , said that the substance of all the definitions of probable cause is a reasonable ground for belief of guilt, and that probable cause exists where the facts and circumstances within the officers’ knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information are sufficient in themselves to warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that an offense has been or is being committed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.