United States v. Edge’s Empirical Analysis
989 F.2d 871 · 1993
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably United States v. Kathleen Kremser Jones (1997), United States v. Elkins (2002)
43 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. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Arizona v. Youngblood · Hormel v. Helvering · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Chapman v. United States · Brewster v. Derwinski
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if it has a reasonable root system--it will be considered a 'plant'.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“readily observable evidence of root formation”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot overrule another panel's published decision on the same issue.”
3 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.