Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Hooker v. State (1995), Falkner v. State (1991)
11 federal appellate · 25 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 Chapman v. State of California · Stovall v. Denno · Gault · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Linkletter v. Walker
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For this reason, we hold that the appellant must be able to state to the District Court some valid reason to believe that certification would have been denied. If he can do this then he will be entitled to an evidentiary hearing on the question”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. State · Fowler v. Alford“1. Whether the alleged offense was committed in an aggressive, violent, premeditated or willful manner; "2. Whether the offense was against persons or property, greater weight being given for retaining the accused person within the adult criminal system for offenses against persons, especially if personal injury resulted; "3. The record and past history of the accused person, including previous contacts with law enforcement agencies and juvenile or criminal courts, prior periods of probation and commitments to juvenile institutions; and "4. The prospects for adequate protection of the public if the accused person is processed through the juvenile system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(b) If a child is charged with delinquency as a result of an offense which would be a crime if committed by an adult, the court, after full investigation and preliminary hearing, may in its discretion continue the juvenile proceeding, or it may certify such child capable of knowing right from wrong and to be held accountable for his acts, for proper criminal proceedings to any other division of the court which would have trial jurisdiction of such offense if committed by an adult.[ 4 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelley v. Kaiser
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.