State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 685 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 697 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Maurer (1984), State v. Apanovitch (1987)
3 federal appellate · 685 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Harrington v. California · Bram v. United States · United States v. Ferrara
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 697 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In deciding whether a defendant's confession is involuntarily induced, the court should consider the totality of the circumstances, including the age, mentality, and prior criminal experience of the accused; the length, intensity, and frequency of interrogation; the existence of physical deprivation or mistreatment; and the existence of threat or inducement.”
68 later decisions quote this exact passage“The quantum or weight of such outside or extraneous evidence is not of itself to be equal to proof beyond a reasonable doubt, nor even enough to make it a prima facie case. It is sufficient if there is some evidence outside of the confession that tends to prove some material element of the crime charged.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“supported by few practical or social-policy considerations”
7 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.