In re Sealed Case’s Empirical Analysis
29 F.3d 715 · 1994
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably In re Sealed Case (1997), In Re: Grand Jury Proceedings United States of America v. John Doe (2000)
14 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 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. § 371 · 22 U.S.C. § 611 (Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938) · 50 U.S.C. § 1701 (International Emergency Economic Powers Act)
Relies on In re Sealed Case · Senate of Puerto Rico ex rel. Judiciary Committee v. United States Department of Justice · In re Grand Jury Investigation · In re Sealed Case · in the Matter of Bevill, Bresler & Schulman Asset Management Corporation
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“persons.... consult an attorney together as a group with interests seeking common representation”
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.