49 Va. App. 727 - Edwards v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
5
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · United States v. Wade · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · McKaskle v. Wiggins
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ensures the defendant 'actually does understand the significance and consequences of a particular decision and [that] the decision is uncoerced.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Samuel
How this case has been treated — in progress
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