Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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

1. “judicial precedent, or court rule that is later declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalidated[.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Meister v. State · State v. Harmon

2. “Under the state of the law as it existed at the time of the search of the trash, this search was not unreasonable and the marijuana was properly discovered evidence. Consequently, according to L.C. § 35-37-4-5, the evidence could not have been properly excluded and could provide support for the finding of probable cause to issue the warrant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Eshelman v. State

3. “court may not grant a motion to exclude evidence on the grounds that the search or seizure by which the evidence was obtained was unlawful if the evidence was obtained by a law enforcement officer in good faith”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Meister v. State