23 Wash. App. 893 - State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably 96 Wash. 2d 215 - State v. Williams (1981), Brodes v. State (2005)
25 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 Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Telfaire · 77 Wash. 2d 955 - State v. Rowe · 4 Wash. App. 745 - State v. Lane · 25 Wash. 2d 686 - State v. Fairbanks
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Witness credibility is more properly tested by examination and cross-examination, and any weaknesses in eyewitness identification may be exposed by counsel in argument to the jury. State v. Jordan, [ 17 Wn. App. 542 , 564 P.2d 340 (1977)]. The general reasonable doubt instruction given by the trial judge enabled Edwards to argue his theory of the case and attack the victims' cred ibility. The trial judge did not err in refusing the proposed instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shriner“`You must be satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt of the accuracy of the identification of defendant as the person who committed the offense before you may convict him'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Allen
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.