Ings v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
282 F.2d 149 · 1960
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Motorola Credit Corp. v. Uzan (2004), Federal Trade Commission v. Compagnie De Saint-Gobain-Pont-A-Mousson (1980)
24 federal appellate · 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 26 U.S.C. § 7602 · 28 U.S.C. § 1781 · 28 U.S.C. § 1782
Relies on Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Vanity Fair Mills, Inc. v. T. Eaton Co. · Ruskin v. Griffiths · First National City Bank v. Internal Revenue Service of United States Treasury Department
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.
““Subpoena power is not absolute. Even if exercised within proper territorial limits, the subpoena may be scrutinized by the courts. Every reason exists for careful scrutiny here. No claim is being made against either bank by any litigant. At most the bank is being called as a witness. The transactions did not originate in the New York Agencies. And the records sought are in the custody of branches in Canada. Under these circumstances it seems highly undesirable that the courts of the United States should countenance service of a subpoena upon a New York agency of a foreign bank which is not a party to the litigation and whose country has provided procedures for securing information, the production of which is consistent with its laws.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a fundamental principle[ ] of international comity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]nly if, despite a ruling [by the Canadian courts] that production of the records or sending them outside the country would not be illegal, [there] were ... a refusal to make such records available.”
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.