Edge v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
270 F.2d 837 · 1959
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1981 · most notably Berry v. United States (1959), Stinson v. United States (1963)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2314
Relies on Marteney v. United States · Hubsch 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evidence shows, within the positive rule set forth in Hubsch, that Edge, with intent to defraud, created a fictional personality under the name of ‘R. E. Spaine.’ The check was cashed after Edge’s second stay at the hotel. On both occasions when Edge was at the hotel he spoke with the manager, Mr. Holladay, representing that he was ‘R. E. Spaine’ of Washington, D. C. Edge told Mr. Holladay that he (R. E. Spaine) had been in Florida with his children and had spent some time at Daytona Beach with his family. The manager’s testimony leaves no doubt that he cashed the check because of his reliance upon the reality, the genuineness, the integrity of the fictional ‘Spaine.’ ” Id. at 838, 839 .”
1 later decision 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.