452 So. 2d 487 - Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
December 1994
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Witherspoon v. Illinois · Young v. State · 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State · Seals v. State · Aaron 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is not an element of the capital crime that the [police] officer be effectuating a legal arrest,”
2 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.