State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably 448 So. 2d 1311 - State v. Tasker (1984), Bujol v. Cain (1983)
1 federal appellate · 54 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Chimel v. California · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · United States v. Edwards · State v. Dotson
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When knowledge or intent forms an essential part of the inquiry, testimony may be offered of such acts, conduct or declarations of the accused as tend to establish such knowledge or intent....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Guirlando“a person may be in constructive possession of a drug even though it is not in his physical custody, if it is subject to his dominion and control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Allen
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.