State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably State v. Stevens (1971), State v. Howell (1975)
6 federal appellate · 40 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · Jackson v. Denno · Sims v. State of Georgia · State v. Spica
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" '[TJestimony which, by clear inference, showed that an alleged accomplice had implicated the defendant in the offense involved, was just as much hearsay and objectionable as the implicating statement itself would have been.... [T]he extrajudicial statement of a third person [that] was attempted to be used as evidence of the guilt of the accused, [is] a clear-cut hearsay violation.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lee · State v. Valentine“a doubt to authorize an acquittal * * * ought to be a substantial doubt touching the defendant's guilt * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis · State v. Leigh“reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis
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.