Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Carrillo v. State (1979), Reed v. State (1988)
128 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 Cardillo v. United States · Taylor v. State · 166 Tex. Crim. 37 - Cawley v. State · 108 Tex. Crim. 1 - Minor v. State · 170 Tex. Crim. 530 - Bradford 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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless corroborated by other evidence tending to connect the defendant with the offense committed; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense.””
40 later decisions quote this exact passage““In certain instances, association with the admitted criminals is corroborative of the testimony of an accomplice. So, the fact that at or about the time of the commission of the offense with which accused is charged he and the accomplice were together, in apparent intimacy, in the place where the crime was committed, or in the neighborhood thereof, may, in conjunction with other facts and circumstances, sufficiently connect accused with the commission of the crime to furnish the necessary corroboration of the accomplice, especially * * * where accused and his accomplice were not only together, but had the fruits of the crime in their possession.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. King v. State · Cherb 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.