United States v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
960 F.2d 278 · 1992
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2014 · most notably Reno v. Koray (1995), Dawson v. Scott (1995)
33 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3013 · 18 U.S.C. § 3142 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3143 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3585 · 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee · Department of the Treasury v. Federal Labor Relations Authority · Frates v. Weinshienk · United States v. Klein
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The interpretation of a federal statute is a question of law which we review de novo.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant shall be given credit toward the service of a term of imprisonment for any time he has spent in official detention prior to the date the sentence commences....”
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.