United States v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
968 F.2d 1148 · 1992
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2010
10 federal appellate ·
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. § 3282
Relies on Weatherford v. Bursey · Halas v. Department of Energy · Riverbend Farms, Inc. v. Agricultural Labor Relations Board · Yamanis v. United States · Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund v. Presti
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t has long been established in this Circuit that it is reversible error to refuse to charge on a defense theory for which there is an evidentiary foundation and which, if believed by the jury, would be legally sufficient to render the accused innocent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“district court has broad discretion in determining whether to grant or deny a jury's request to read a portion of the trial transcript”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.