State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably 440 So. 2d 129 - State v. Benoit (1983), 404 So. 2d 466 - State v. Lindsey (1981)
78 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 State v. Augustine · State v. Chinn · State v. Brodes
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Moderate [mental] retardation and a low intelligence quotient do not of themselves vitiate the ability [of a defendant] to knowingly and intelligently waive constitutional rights and make a free and voluntary confession."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Mental incapacity to proceed exists when, as a result of mental disease or defect, a defendant presently lacks the capacity to understand the proceedings against him or to assist in his defense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pravata · State v. Holmes“* * * Sanity, including mental capacity to proceed, is presumed. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pellerin
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.