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← 255 Ala. 246 - Edwardson v. State

Edwardson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1951

Citation profile

50
cited by 50 later decisions
4
states following
December 1993
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 1993 · most notably 87 Ill. 2d 107 - People v. Kincaid (1981), Wallace v. State (1973)

2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions

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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 Watts v. Indiana · Ward v. State of Texas · Roan v. State · Redd v. State · Sparrenberger 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"A promise or inducement for a confession cannot be implied from an exhortation to a prisoner that it is best or better to tell the truth. The rule is otherwise, where the party has been told by a person in authority that it is better for him to confess, or that he will be bettered by saying a particular thing." (Emphasis supplied).”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “She [the defendant] was talkative and they might go up there and talk with her.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.