Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2015
20 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 Doyle v. Ohio · Grunewald v. United States · United States v. Hale · Anderson v. Charles · Shepard v. United States
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, a statement may be admissible where it is not offered to prove the truth of whatever facts might be stated, `but rather to establish the reason for action or conduct by the witness.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Pierce v. State · Shaw v. State“[h]earsay does not include statements of witnesses in the present trial subject to cross-examination by the party against whom the statements are offered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The [lack of] opportunity to cross-examine the witness is one of the major reasons for the hearsay rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Snell 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.