Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2018
10 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 Culmore v. State · Nelson v. State · Beal v. State · Hodge v. State · Hill v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court found that the standard for review in both direct and circumstantial evidence eases is whether any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.... In both direct and circumstantial evidence cases the reviewing court will look at all the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict or judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keith v. State““ . . . it is only necessary to allege the name of the county as the place where the offense was committed (1) if the offense may be committed anywhere within the county, (2) the place where committed is not an element of the offense, and (3) the court in which the offense is tried has county-wide jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Hunter“Any question as to whether the instant conviction concerns the alleged burglary at 800 Hollybrook or 804 Hollybrook is not before us inasmuch as appellant did not at any time seek a clarification, secure an instruction or request an election by the State. See Hill v. State, 544 S.W.2d 411 (Tex.Cr.App.1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Espinoza 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.