Wharton v. Calderon’s Empirical Analysis
127 F.3d 1201 · 1997
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably Bittaker v. Woodford (2003), Charles McDowell Jr v. Arthur Calderon (1999)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Koon v. United States · Chambers v. Nasco, Inc.
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.
“... there are entirely respectable reasons for conducting discovery by interview vice deposition: it is less costly and less likely to entail logistical or scheduling problems; it is conducive to spontaneity and candor in a way depositions can never be; and it is a cost-efficient means of eliminating non-essential witnesses from the list completely.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, a court's authority to `protect' the attorney-client privilege simply does not extend, at least absent some compelling circumstance, to non compelled, voluntary, [disclosures], any more than it does to an after-dinner conversation. The attorney-client privilege is a rule of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The attorney-client privilege is a rule of evidence. It does not provide a legal basis to support issuance of the district court's `protective order,' which purports to bar out-of-court interviews to which the rules of evidence do not apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bittaker v. Woodford
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.