Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Braley v. State (2002), 223 Ga. App. 772 - Strickland v. State (1996)
114 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. Alvarado · Shepherd v. State · 197 Ga. App. 214 - Sims v. State · 201 Ga. App. 139 - Belcher v. State · 161 Ga. App. 403 - Grant 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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the state’s evidence establishes all of the elements of an offense and there is no evidence raising the lesser offense, there is no error in failing to give a charge on the lesser offense. ... Where a case contains some evidence, no matter how slight, that shows that the defendant committed a lesser offense, then the court should charge the jury on that offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““(A) written request to charge a lesser included offense must always be given if there is any evidence that the defendant is guilty of the lesser included offense.” [Cit.] .. . Although certainly subject to attack as weak, incomplete or self-serving, [Appellant’s] statement to the [police] constitutes at least “any evidence that the defendant is guilty of the lesser included offense” which mandates giving the requested written charge, as such evidence would entitle a jury to believe his version.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. State“[t]his case contained some evidence [from which the jury could find that Garr] did not use a weapon to take property from the victim[, the court] was therefore [authorized] to [give] a charge on the lesser included offense.”
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.