McCaugherty v. Siffermann’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2016
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 12 U.S.C. § 1464 (Consumer Home Mortgage Assistance Act of 1974)
Relies on Upjohn Company v. United States · Fisher v. United States · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Hartford Fire Insurance v. Garvey · Medcom Holding Co. v. Baxter Travenol Laboratories, 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No privilege can attach to any communication as to which a business purpose would have served as a sufficient cause, i.e., any communication that would have been made because of a business purpose, even if there had been no perceived additional interest in securing legal advice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griffith v. Davis“acted within the scope of their employment (by aiding FADA in the efforts to sell FSB) and under the direction of their supervisor, FADA, when communicating with Pettit & Martin”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Bieter Co.“no principled basis for distinguishing consultants Sifferman and Zech from the kinds of employees to whom the Supreme Court extended the protection of the privilege in Upjohn.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Bieter Co.
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.