Edwards v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• even though father present at time statement given, son’s confession held inadmissible because induced by police promise
• the police showed the defendant a letter from a convict to the police, conveying the convict’s regret that the convict had not confessed, and the Court held the resulting confession inadmissible
• the police showed the defendant a letter from a convict to the police, conveying the convict's regret that the convict had not confessed, and the Court held the resulting confession inadmissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

33 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hillard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1979-10-05· cited 136×
• State v. Driver
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1962-07-19· cited 133×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1978-04-06· cited 98×
• Frazier v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1958-11-21· cited 93×
• Lodowski v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-08-22· cited 91×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-10-17· cited 86×
• Boone v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1967-09-28· cited 80×
• Bean v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1964-04-28· cited 71×
• State v. Goyet
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1957-05-07· cited 70×
• Grammer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2001-10-18· cited 68×
• Ralph v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1961-10-13· cited 65×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1960-07-08· cited 63×
• Merchant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1958-05-21· cited 43×
• Reynolds v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-03-18· cited 39×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1956-03-15· cited 34×
• Nixon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1954-05-21· cited 28×
• Lemons v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1981-09-01· cited 24×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1987-11-10· cited 22×
• Lloyd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-03-18· cited 19×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1952-04-04· cited 18×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bram v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1897-12-13· cited 1,397×
• Watts v. Indiana
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-27· cited 831×
• Malinski v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1945-03-26· cited 711×
• Turner v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1949-08-04· cited 277×
• Harris v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-27· cited 204×
• Nicholson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1873-06-06· cited 57×
• Biscoe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1887-03-15· cited 57×
• Toomer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1910-01-14· cited 51×
• The People v. Sweetin
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1927-04-20· cited 50×
• Grear v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1972-10-01· cited 21×
• Goldstein v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1941-12-03· cited 10×
• Whitten v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1923-07-07· cited 5×