State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably State v. Bolte (1995), Bellcourt v. State (1986)
37 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. Leinweber · State v. Brouillette · State v. Swain · State v. Adams · Johns 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial court has to submit a lesser offense only if it is a so-called lesser-included offense and only if there is evidence that produces a rational basis for a verdict acquitting the defendant of the offense charged and convicting him of the lesser offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nunn · State v. Evans“SELF DEFENSE — CAUSING DEATH No crime is committed when a person takes the life of another person, even intentionally (1) if defendant’s action is taken in resisting or preventing an offense which defendant reasonably believes exposes defendant (or another) to death or great bodily harm. (2) if defendant's action is taken in preventing the commission of the felony of_ in defendant’s place of abode. In order for a killing to be justified for (this) (these) reason(s) three conditions must be met. First, the killing must have been done in the belief that it was necessary to avert death or great bodily harm. Second, the judgment of defendant as to the gravity of the peril to which (he) (she) (or another) was exposed must have been reasonable under the circumstances. Third, defendant’s election to defend must have been such as a reasonable person would have made in fight of the danger perceived and the existence of any alternative way of avoiding the peril. All three conditions must be met, but the state has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did not act in self-defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robinson · State v. Fidel“While it is your duty to accept as true the uncontradicted testimony of unim-peached witnesses which was given with apparent frankness and candor, still you are not obliged to accept the testimony as true merely because there was no direct testimony contradicting it. If it contains contradiction which, standing alone, or in connection with other evidence in the case, furnishes a reasonable ground for believing it is not true, you may disregard it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dillard
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.