Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1983 · most notably The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia (1831), Norris v. Crocker (1851)
45 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When two or more persons are included in one prosecution, the court may, at any time before the defendant has gone into his defense, direct any defendant to be discharged, that he may be a witness for the state. . . . The order of discharge is a bar to another prosecution for the same offense.” Laws of 1854, p. 120, § 117.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . if he has been discharged, and then in his testimony plays false with the court, the order of discharge will be set aside, and he will be put upon trial, even on his own confession. . . . ””
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.