54 Cal. 3d 787 - People v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 465 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 489 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Tuilaepa v. California (1994), 22 Cal. 4th 690 - People v. Waidla (2000)
12 federal appellate · 465 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 · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Rock v. Arkansas · Waller v. Georgia · Pulley v. Harris
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 489 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“erred in denying the change of venue motion, i.e., that at the time of the motion it was reasonably likely that a fair trial could not be had, and that the error was prejudicial, i.e., that it was reasonably likely that a fair trial was not in fact had.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“merely the immediate temporal and spatial circumstances of the crime,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] State may properly conclude that for the jury to assess meaningfully the defendant's moral culpability and blameworthiness, it should have before it at the sentencing phase evidence of the specific harm caused by the defendant. `[T]he State has a legitimate interest in counteracting the mitigating evidence which the defendant is entitled to put in, by reminding the sentencer that just as the murderer should be considered as an individual, so too the victim is an individual whose death represents a unique loss to society and in particular to his family.' [Citation.]”
2 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.