Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Orr (1997), State v. Perez (1991)
30 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gault · 66 Ill. 2d 470 - People v. Prude · Hollenbach v. Haycraft · JTP 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““THE COURT: I’m going to cover each of the points mentioned in KSA 38-808 in making the determination as to whether the juvenile is a fit and proper subject to be dealt with under the Kansas Juvenile Code. First is whether the seriousness of the alleged offense is so great that the protection of the community requires criminal prosecution of the child. My finding in regard to that particular point is that it is a serious offense involving the shooting of a gun at the very least in the general direction of an individual, and that it is serious enough to require criminal prosecution of the child. “The second is whether the alleged offense was committed in an aggressive, violent, premeditated or willful manner. In that regard I am going to find that the offense was, alleged offense, was committed in an aggressive, violent, and willful manner. “The third is the maturity of the child as determined by consideration of the child’s home, environment, emotional attitude and pattern of living. There’s really been no evidence on that except that the child is now age eighteen, which does indicate that he is an adult at this time, or at the time of this hearing. And at the time of this hearing he is mature enough to be an adult. “Fourth is whether the alleged offense was against persons or against property, greater weight being given to offenses against persons, especially a person injured as a result. No personal injury did result in this case, but the offense was against a person and un”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here is no constitutional requirement that a juvenile be instructed as to the courts in which he may be tried or the potential penalties which may accompany his offenses before he can waive his Miranda rights and make a free and voluntary confession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of VWB
How this case has been treated — in progress
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