Edwards v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
265 F.2d 302 · 1959
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably 87 Wash. 2d 374 - State v. Arndt (1976), Dranow v. United States (1962)
38 federal appellate · 1 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 Hirabayashi v. United States · United States v. Alper · United States v. Grady · Wolcher v. United States
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The gist of the offense charged in each of the eight counts ... is the failure ... to reveal or disclose on or after [the filing of the petition], property belonging to the bankrupt. Surely, if an accused should conceal a dining room set, a china set, or one thousand silver dollars belonging to the estate of the bankrupt, his offense of failure to reveal or disclose would not be multiplied by the number of separate items concealed. The fact that several different items of property belonging to the estate of a bankrupt were concealed does not multiply the number of offenses, even though the concealment of any one of the items standing alone would constitute the offense denounced by the statute. The offense . . . does not arise until there is a duty to reveal or disclose tt”
2 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.