Bedwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
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
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.
“or coerced, equivocal, wholly uncorroborated testimony of”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stout v. State · Cardwell v. State“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“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 passagee.g. Price v. State
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.