People v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 4 Va. App. 438 - Martin v. Commonwealth (1987), 166 W. Va. 309 - State v. Young (1980)
4 federal appellate · 14 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.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A 'spontaneous declaration or excited utterance-made contemporaneously or immediately after a startling event-which asserts the circumstances of that occasion as observed by the declarant' is an exception to the prohibition on hearsay”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the declarant was under the stress of excitement caused by an external event sufficient to still his reflective faculties”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as expressing the true belief of the declarant as to the facts observed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Cummings
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.