United States v. Edelson’s Empirical Analysis
581 F.2d 1290 · 1978
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably United States v. Canino (1991), United States v. Rising (1989)
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 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. § 1623 · 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Connally v. General Construction Co. · Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company v. United States · United States v. Mandujano · Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas · United States v. Joseph A. Chase, United States of America v. Robert H. Parrish, United States of America v. Wyatt J. Roy, Jr.
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.
“But assuming, arguendo, that Edelson does have standing, we are not persuaded by the appellant’s claim that the term “criminal,” “tortious” and “injurious act” are so vague that “men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at [their] meaning and differ as to [their] application.” Connally v. General Construction Co., 269 U.S. 385 , 391, 46 S.Ct. 126 , 127, 70 L.Ed. 322 (1926). On the contrary, we find the statute to be sufficiently explicit to “inform those who are subject to it what conduct on their part will render them liable to its penalties.” Id. 46 S.Ct. at 127 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the proper procedure [is] to ask the district judge to examine the minutes in camera and report on the record whether they contained such inconsistent information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“violation of the Constitution or laws ... of the United States”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bradley v. Fairfax
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.