Edwardsen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Scott v. State (1965), Coles v. State (1981)
59 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 Williams v. People of State of New York · Burns v. United States · Roberts v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary · Madison v. State · Hecht v. Crook
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Swan v. State, 200 Md. 420, 425 , was a case involving the striking out of a suspended sentence for violation of the conditions of probation, after hearing. It was held that an appeal would lie, at least to determine whether the trial court abused its discretion or placed an erroneous construction on the conditions of the probation. Abuse of discretion may be found if the trial court acts arbitrarily or capriciously. Burns v. United States, 287 U. S. 216, 222 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scott v. State
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.