Commonwealth v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably Davis v. Washington (2006), 225 Ill. 2d 246 - People v. Stechly (2007)
2 federal appellate · 80 state decisions — followed in 20 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Crawford v. Washington · United States v. Wade · Pointer v. Texas · Illinois v. Allen
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant actively facilitates the carrying out of the witness's independent intent not to testify”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] defendant's joint effort with a witness to secure the latter's unavailability, regardless of whether the witness already decided 'on his own' not to testify, may be sufficient to support a finding of forfeiture by wrongdoing.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“at the very least, . . . a logical outgrowth or foreseeable result of the [defendant's efforts].”
4 later decisions 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.