Edwards v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““He [a juvenile] may be held in custody by the juvenile authorities — and is available to investigating officers— for five days before any formal action need be taken. There is no duty to take him before a magistrate, and no responsibility to inform him of his rights. He is not booked. The statutory intent is to establish a non-punitive, noncriminal atmosphere.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kent v. United States

2. “The Harling case bars the Government from using against an accused in a criminal trial a confession or admission officially obtained from him when he was a juvenile detained under the auspices of the Juvenile Court, where the latter court has subsequently waived its jurisdiction and transferred the accused for trial to the District Court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Eddie M. Harrison v. United States of America, Orson G. White v. United States of America, Joseph R. Sampson v. United States

3. “directly or indirectly obtained through juvenile procedures”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Eddie M. Harrison v. United States of America, Orson G. White v. United States of America, Joseph R. Sampson v. United States