United States v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
65 F.3d 430 · 1995
Citation profile
48 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably United States v. Arrington (1996), United States v. Buchanan (1995)
48 federal appellate ·
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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Sowashee Venture v. EB, Inc. · Hiatt v. Indiana State Student Assistance Commission · G-K Development Co. v. Broadmoor Place Investments · Johnson v. Brown · Cadillac Products, Inc. v. Trienda Corp.
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendant does not have more than 1 criminal history point, as determined under the sentencing guidelines; (2) the defendant did not use violence or credible threats of violence or possess a firearm or other dangerous weapon (or induce another participant to do so) in connection with the offense; (3) the offense did not result in death or serious bodily injury to any person; (4) the defendant was not an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of others in the offense ...; and (5) not later than the time of the sentencing hearing, the defendant has truthfully provided to the Government all information and evidence the defendant has concerning the offense or offenses that were part of the same course of conduct or of a common scheme or plan, but the fact that the defendant has no relevant or useful other information to provide or that the Government is already aware of the information shall not preclude a determination by the court that the defendant has complied with this requirement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A factual finding is not clearly erroneous as long as the finding is plausible in the light of the record as a whole.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has sufficient indicia of reliability to support its probable accuracy.”
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.