Edwards v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
334 F.2d 360 · 1964
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably Laird v. Tatum (1972), Davis v. Board of School Commissioners (1975)
59 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 26 U.S.C. § 4411 · 26 U.S.C. § 7203 · 28 U.S.C. § 46
Relies on Spies v. United States · Banco Nacional De Cuba v. Sabbatino · United States v. Murdock · Davis v. United States · Ford 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After such study as I could give the matter, I reached the conclusion that whether a judge should recuse himself in-a particular case depends not so much on his personal preference or individual views as it does on the law, and that, under the law, I have no choice in this case. * He * * * * If either or both of the other judges who participated in the original decision could sit on the en banc hearing there could be no question that I must also sit. While their absence makes me prefer not to sit, I have not found that it furnishes me any legal excuse. 334 F.2d at 362n.2.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As to Albert, * * * a close question is presented as to whether this inference [knowledge of the wagering tax] could be drawn beyond a reasonable doubt as required by Riggs, * * * [Riggs v. United States, 5 Cir., 1960, 280 F.2d 949 ], and we prefer to base our decision on our holding, hereafter elaborated, that the evidence from which the jury might draw the inference of knowledge of the law is aided or supplemented by a rebuttable presumption that the defendants knew the law.” 334 F.2d at 365-366 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where the law is plain, definite, and well settled, and any want of knowledge of its requirements is a fact resting peculiarly within the knowledge of the defendants, when the Government has established its case in all other respects, the burden of adducing some evidence to rebut the presumption of such knowledge rests on the defendants. A mental state being involved, the presumption of knowledge of the law is analogous to the presumption of sanity * * *.” 334 F.2d at 367 .”
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.