United States v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
53 F.3d 616 · 1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably United States v. Scott (2001), United States v. Johnson (2010)
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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. § 1029
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Hensley · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado · Johnson v. Righetti
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.
“the perpetrators might have armed themselves to facilitate their escape if confronted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he 'reasonableness of the intrusion is the touchstone' of the inquiry, in that 'the need of law enforcement officials' must be balanced against 'the burden on the affected citizens.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the vast majority of courts have held that police actions in blocking a suspect's vehicle and approaching with weapons ready, and even drawn, does not constitute an arrest per se .”
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.