United States v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
115 F.3d 1322 · 1997
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably United States v. Magana (1997), United States v. Jarrett (1998)
39 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · Continental Casualty Co. v. UNR Industries, Inc. · West Virginia State Department of Tax & Revenue v. Internal Revenue Service · Alaska v. Babbitt · Breast Implant Tort Represented By O'Quinn v. Dow Corning Corp.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all reasonably foreseeable acts and omission, of others in furtherance of the jointly undertaken criminal activity, that occurred during the commission of the offense of conviction, in preparation for that offense, or in the course of attempting to avoid detection or responsibility for that offense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless upon review [we are] left with a definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[I]f two permissible views exist, the fact-finder's choice between them cannot be clearly erroneous.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.