United States v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.2d 883 · 1978
Citation profile
139 federal appellate · 4 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 229 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably Rakas v. Illinois (1979), United States v. Salvucci (1980)
139 federal appellate · 4 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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. § 1708 · 18 U.S.C. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Barker v. Wingo · Simmons v. United States · Jones v. United States · Chambers v. Maroney
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 229 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough faded memory may result in prejudice, ... that in order to prejudice the defense to the extent necessary to constitute a speedy trial violation, the faded memory must substantially relate to a material fact in issue.... Vague assertions of faded memory will not suffice.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`probable cause is the sum total of layers of information and the synthesis of what the police have heard, what they know, and what they observed as trained officers ... [which is not weighed in] individual layers but [in] the "laminated”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a sufficient springboard for inquiry into the other relevant factors,”
3 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.