Edwards v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “exceeded the bounds of reason in view of the circumstances, [or]...so ignored recognized rules of law or practice so as to produce injustice.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Longford-Myers v. State · ARCHY v. State

2. “[We] will first consider whether the specific rulings at issue were correct. If [we] find error or abuse of discretion in the rulings, [we] must then determine whether the mistakes constituted significant prejudice so as to have denied the appellant a fair trial.”

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

3. “evidence having the tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”

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