State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. Hope (1990), 106 N.C. App. 596 - State v. Davis (1992)
33 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 Ashe v. Swenson · United States v. Hewitt · State v. Thompson · United States v. Ballard · Belt v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the doctrine of collateral estoppel, an issue of ultimate fact, once determined by a valid and final judgment, cannot again be litigated between the same parties in any future lawsuit. Subsequent prosecution is barred only if the jury could not rationally have based its verdict on an issue other than the one the defendant seeks to foreclose.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[U]nrealistic and artificial speculation about some far-fetched theory upon which the jury might have based its verdict of acquittal' is foreclosed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the wrongful taking and carrying away; (2) of the personal property of another; (3) without his consent; (4) with the intent to deprive permanently the owner thereof.”
2 later decisions 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.