Shotkin v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
146 F.2d 402 · 1944
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1984 · most notably United States v. Nixon (1974), United States v. Berrios (1974)
25 federal appellate · 4 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 Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Jones v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Brown v. United States · Consolidated Rendering Company v. State of Vermont C · Consolidated Mines v. Securities & Exchange Commission
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a subpoena duces tecum should be enforced is in the first instance a question for the trial court, and its decision should not be disturbed on appeal unless it clearly appears it is arbitrary and finds no support in the record.”
2 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.