737 So. 2d 275 - Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

102

cited by 102 later decisions

states following

November 2017

most recently cited

96 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 954 So. 2d 968 - Ross v. State (2007), 805 So. 2d 452 - Simmons v. State (2001)

96 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 Illinois v. Gates · Batson v. Kentucky · Lockett v. Ohio · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Hernandez v. New York

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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“"But, instead, ladies and gentlemen, he made an argument that quite honestly, I don't have any sympathy as I thought I would for him, because I can't believe that anybody could get up here with a straight face and argue to you the things that he has just argued. . . . Quite honestly, ladies and gentlemen, it boggles my mind as to how anybody could argue such a ridiculous proposition, other than the fact I realize they have a job to do and they have to come up with something. But it is still mind boggling how anybody can stand here with a straight face in front of you and say we haven't proven that. . . . Now, that does tee me off, ladies and gentlemen, for the defense lawyer, the man who is representing the man who made those maggots infest that man's head, that man over there is defending the dignity of [the victim] by telling you that the photographs that show the bullet holes in his head don't show something important in this case?"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Davis v. State · 956 So. 2d 1016 - Bailey v. State
“rule of this Court is that the jurors are required to find the existence of each aggravating circumstance beyond a reasonable doubt, but the jury is not required to find that the aggravating circumstances beyond a reasonable doubt outweigh the mitigating circumstances following the statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Keller v. State · Brown v. State
“in order to make an appropriate assessment, the reviewing court must not only weigh the impact of the prosecutor's remark, but must also take into account defense counsel's opening salvo.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 805 So. 2d 452 - Simmons v. State · 799 So. 2d 70 - Ishee 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.