Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 46 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The motion court's findings of fact and conclusions of law are presumed to be correct.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. State · Paxton v. State

2. “The record shows, as this Court concluded on direct appeal, that all of the evidence was admitted for the limited-and proper-purpose of explaining subsequent police actions. The judge carefully controlled the evidence so that no witnesses were allowed to testify improperly about what Wilson had told them. Because none of Wilson's statements implicating Edwards was admitted for its truth, there was no testimonial evidence involved, and the Confrontation Clause was not implicated. Because the Confrontation Clause was not implicated, the subsequent decisions of Crawford and Davis do not change the conclusion of this Court on direct appeal that no improper hearsay was admitted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Szymanski v. State

3. “[n]o person who as a result of mental disease or defect lacks capacity to understand the proceedings against him or to assist in his own defense shall be tried, convicted or sentenced for the commission of an offense so long as the incapacity endures.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sneed