Edwards v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
814 F.2d 486 · 1987
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably United States v. Marshall (1990), United States Parole Commission v. Noble (1997)
25 federal appellate · 2 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. § 495 · 18 U.S.C. § 510 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Bordenkircher v. Hayes · United States v. Batchelder · Radzanower v. Touche Ross & Co. · Simpson v. United States · Posadas v. National City Bank
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rests on an unrealistic premise about the legislative process. The premise is that when a legislature contemplates passing a new statute it is careful to search the statute book for any statute that might overlap the new one, and if it finds any such older statute and doesn't want to continue that statute in force it repeals it explicitly when passing the new one. `The presumption against implied repeals is founded upon the doctrine that the legislature is presumed to envision the whole body of the law when it enacts new legislation.' 1A Sutherland Statutory Construction § 23.10, at p. 346 (4th ed.1985). But, of course, neither Congress nor any other legislature in the United States `envision[s] the whole body of the law when it enacts new legislation.' Cf. Barrett v. United States, 423 U.S. 212 , 223-24, 96 S.Ct. 498, 46 L.Ed.2d 450 (1976). How could it, given the vast expanse of legislation that has never been repealed and the even vaster expanse of judicial and administrative rulings glossing that legislation?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The creation of section 510 to title 18, United States Code, would make it a felony: First, to forge an endorsement or signature on a U.S. Treasury check or bond or security of the United States; or second, to pass or attempt to pass such an obligation with the knowledge that it has been forged. It would also make it a felony to knowingly exchange or possess exchange or possess such an obligation of the United States which has been stolen or bears a forged endorsement. 129 Cong.Rec. S9342 (daily ed. June 28, 1983) (statement of Senator De-Concini). (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever utters or publishes as true any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing [deed, power of attorney, order, certificate, receipt, contract, or other writing], with intent to defraud the United States, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited [is guilty of an offense].”
1 later decision 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.