State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1987 · most notably Elkins v. United States (1960), Wolf v. People of the State of Colorado (1949)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Boyd v. United States · Shields v. State · Closson v. Morrison · Loomis v. . People · Ex parte Hurn
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One complete answer to this is that, if it was an illegal seizure, that is no objection to the use of the papers as evidence, they being proper evidence in the case in other respects, for the court can take no notice how they were obtained, whether lawfully or unlawfully; nor would it form a collateral issue to determine that question.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.