United States v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
897 F.2d 445 · 1990
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Teague (1992), United States v. Leggett (1998)
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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. § 1153 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Martinez
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court has no duty to advise the defendant of his right to testify, nor is the court required to insure that an on-the-record waiver has occurred. The defendant's conduct provides a sufficient basis from which to infer the right to testify has been waived.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“silence at trial effectively waive[s] his right to testify on his own behalf.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o hold that a defendant may abide by his lawyer's advice and not take the stand and then invalidate the trial because he so acted is not fair to the government”
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.