Brock v. Gerace’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1104 (§ 404 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Malloy v. Hogan · Kastigar v. United States · Hoffman v. United States · Rogers v. United States · Lefkowitz v. Turley
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.
“all other objections, such as relevance, burden, and other privileges, have been waived by non-assertion within the time [required,] ... [t]he court must be reluctant, however, to equate the loss of the Fifth Amendment privilege with the loss of other discovery privileges of less fundamental scope”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“although the Fifth Amendment privilege was not invoked in the manner required ..., there was a clear and timely statement by counsel of the client's refusal to answer in the event that the pending objections were overruled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“procedural gamesmanship and dilatory tactics”
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.