In re Sealed Case’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.3d 1073 · 1998
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Jacqueline Pearson v. Bruce Miller (2000), In Re Bruce R. Lindsey (Grand Jury Testimony) (1998)
13 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 3056 (Presidential Protection Assistance Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 594
Relies on United States v. Nixon · Elkins v. United States · Branzburg v. Hayes · Cobbledick v. United States · Trammel v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“investigate any violation of title 18 [the federal criminal code] involving Government officers and employees.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“with respect to all matters in [his] prosecutorial jurisdiction ... full power and independent authority to exercise all investigative and prosecutorial functions and powers of ... the Attorney General.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a 'public good transcending the normally predominant principle of utilizing all rational means for ascertaining the truth.'”
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.