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Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
2
states following
April 2012
most recently cited

30 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Hughes v. State (1981), State v. Pailin (1975)

30 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 Chapman v. State of California · Cady v. Dombrowski · Schneble v. Florida · Johnson v. United States · Almeida-Sanchez 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The application or complaint for a search warrant shall be in writing, signed by the complainant and verified by his oath or affirmation. It shall designate the house, place, conveyance or person to be searched and the owner or occupant thereof (if any), and shall describe the things or persons sought as particularly as may be, and shall substantially allege the cause for which the search is made or the offense committed by or in relation to the persons or things searched for, and shall state that the complainant suspects that such persons or things are concealed in the house, place, conveyance or person designated and shall recite the facts upon which such suspicion is founded.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jensen v. State
  2. “even where error is committed, ordinarily it will be cured by the trial judge’s striking of the offending testimony and admonition to the jury to disregard it”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Zimmerman v. State

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.