Edelman v. People of State of California’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville (1972), Staub v. City of Baxley (1958)
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 88 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · In re Oliver · Mooney v. Holohan · Schneider v. State · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“seasonably raised in accordance with the requirements of state law. Noncompliance with such local law can thus be an adequate state ground for a decision below.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.