Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist
← 481 NE2D 1090 - Bedwell v. State

Bedwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
1
states following
July 2012
most recently cited

33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Jordan v. State (1995), Gregory v. State (1989)

33 state decisions

1501985199020002010decided

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 Nelson v. State · Johnson v. State · Rodgers v. State · Warriner v. State · Niece 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “or coerced, equivocal, wholly uncorroborated testimony of”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “will not in any way impinge on that responsibility unless confronted with 'inherently improba-blie' testimony, or coerced, equivocal, wholly uncorroborated testimony of”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “This is, after all, an appeal of Appellant's convictions and any challenge to the legality of the plea agreement between [the State witness] and the State must be made by [that witness] in his own independent action.... [The plea agreement was relevant only with regard to [the witness's] credibility before this jury and its legality would not affect [the witness's] duty to testify truthfully while under oath. Moreover, Appellant was allowed to fully cross-examine [the witness] and had every opportunity to discredit or otherwise challenge [the witness's] credibility.”
    1 later decision 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.