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United States v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

891 F.3d 708 · 2018

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
June 2025
most recently cited

1 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Draper v. United States · California v. Acevedo · District of Columbia v. Wesby · United States v. Jacobs

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “officers may conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle if they have probable cause to believe that the car contains contraband or other evidence.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “probable cause may be based on the collective knowledge of all law enforcement officers involved in an investigation and need not be based solely upon the information within the knowledge of the officer on the scene if there is some degree of communication.”
    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.