State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2021
18 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 Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Ake v. Oklahoma
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While severance is ordinarily a matter which rests within the sound discretion of the trial court, that general rule is not necessarily applicable to the severance of offenses.”); State v. Edwards, 868 S.W.2d 682, 691 (Tenn.Crim.App.1993) (“While severance is ordinarily a matter which rests within the sound discretion of the trial court, that general rule is not necessarily applicable in relation to the severance of offenses.”); State v. Peacock, 638 S.W.2d 837, 839 (Tenn.Crim.App.1982) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shirley
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.