Edgecomb v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Serino v. State (2003), Benefiel v. State (1999)
1 federal appellate · 65 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 Siberry v. State · Marshall v. State · Fointno v. State · Boyd v. State · Denton 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'are not mitigating or aggravating factors as those terms are used in the sentencing statute”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Jury instructions are to be considered as a whole and in reference to each other; error in a particular instruction will not result in reversal unless the entire jury charge misleads the jury as to the law in the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“who knowingly or intentionally aids, induces, or causes another person to commit an offense commits that offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Whedon v. State · B.K.C. 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.