In re Segal’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably In re Pierce (1999), Samuel R. Pierce (1999)
29 federal appellate ·
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 Olson v. 86-1 · In Re Oliver L. North (Dutton Fee Application) · In re Sealed Case · Nofziger v. 87-1 · In Re Edwin Meese III
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.
“the case could have been disposed of at an early stage of the investigation,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Instead, the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division rejected Public Integrity's initial recommendation, and directed that the investigation be handled pursuant to the Act, after which the AG applied to the Court for the appointment of an independent counsel. The IC also notes that in Sagawa the Attorney General specifically stated in her application to the Court that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Department of Justice would in all likelihood exercise its discretion to decline to prosecute this case as a criminal matter.”
1 later decision 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.