Ashford v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
780 F.2d 405 · 1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2012
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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
Relies on Missouri v. Hunter · State v. Smith · State v. Rogers · State v. Potter · State v. . Mull
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he first inquiry must be directed to the question of legislative intention as to whether a continuing criminal episode should be treated as a single offense for which only one punishment may be imposed or as two or more “ ‘units of prosecution’ based upon particular factors of time or other circumstances dividing the whole into- discrete parts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[D]eficiencies in state court indictments are not ordinarily a basis of federal habeas corpus relief unless the deficiency makes the trial so egregiously unfair as to amount to a deprivation of the defendant's right to due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Lindler
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.