Edwards v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
322 federal appellate · 50 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 622 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Booker (2004), Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000)
322 federal appellate · 50 district · 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Edwards (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Watts · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Witte v. United States · United States v. Orozco-Prada
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 622 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]f course, petitioners' statutory and constitutional claims would make a difference if it were possible to argue, say, that the sentences imposed exceeded the maximum that the statutes permit for a cocaine-only conspiracy. That is because a maximum sentence set by statute trumps a higher sentence set forth in the Guidelines. [United States Sentencing Commission, Guidelines Manual § 5G1.1 (Nov. 1994) ]”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the judge was authorized to determine for sentencing purposes whether crack, as well as cocaine, was involved in the offense-related activities.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all acts and omissions . . . that were part of the same course of conduct or common scheme or plan as the offense of conviction,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.