Traub v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
232 F.2d 43 · 1955
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably United States v. Joyce (1974), United States v. Turner (1987)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 401
Relies on United States v. Bryan · Quinn v. United States · Emspak v. United States · Fanchon & Marco, Inc. v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. · Berry v. Midtown Service 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear and unequivocal at the time it is issued.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that a person cannot be compelled to produce, under a subpoena, a document which is neither in his possession nor under his control.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any ambiguity in the court's direction ... precludes the essential finding of willful and contumacious resistance to the court's authority.”
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.