Adams v. Ardcor’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Upjohn Company v. United States · Trammel v. United States · Jaffee Special Administrator for Allen Deceased v. Redmond · Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Inc. v. Home Indemnity Co. · Garcia v. Zenith Electronics Corp.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unacceptable because it would allow the privilege holder to thwart the truth-seeking process by using the privilege as both a shield and a sword.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.