413 So. 2d 1007 - Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State (1984), 454 So. 2d 468 - Stringer v. State (1984)
90 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 Santobello v. New York · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Blackledge v. Allison · 337 So. 2d 1242 - Jackson v. State
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) excused a juror for conscientious scruples against the death penalty, (2) failed to instruct the jury on circumstantial evidence, (3) allowed the state to show a “separate and distinct crime,” (4) refused to reduce the “charge to murder,” (5) admitted into evidence a “photograph of deceased,” (6) held the evidence was sufficient, (7) allowed Defendant’s co-indictee to receive a life sentence, and (8) denied Defendant “effective assistance of counsel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“against the death penalty. Juror Hibler was asked by the circuit judge if she could follow the testimony and instructions of the court although the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A more calloused and unjustifiable killing could hardly be imagined.”
1 later decision 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.