Impounded’s Empirical Analysis
241 F.3d 308 · 2001
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably In re Grand Jury Investigation (2006), United States v. Supreme Court of New Mexico (2016)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 1503
Relies on United States v. Calandra · Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., Solano Cty. · Upjohn Company v. United States · Kastigar v. United States · Costello 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) (When) legal advice of any kind is sought (2) from a professional legal adviser in his capacity as such, (3) the communications relating to that purpose, (4) made in confidence (5) by the client, (6) are at his insistence permanently protected (7) from disclosure by himself or by the legal adviser, (8) except the protection be waived.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the existence of a judicial proceeding; (2) knowledge or notice of the pending proceeding; (3) acting corruptly with the intent of influencing, obstructing, or impeding the proceeding in the due administration of justice; and (4) the action had the ‘natural and probable effect’ of interfering with the due administration of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he government must make a prima facie showing that (1) the client was committing or intending to commit a fraud or crime, and (2) the attorney-client communications were in furtherance of that alleged crime or fraud. A “prima facie showing” requires presentation of “evidence which, if believed by the fact-finder, would be sufficient to support a finding that the elements of the crime-fraud exception were met.””
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.