Docket No. 02-6239’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Evergreen Trading, LLC ex rel. GN Investments, LLC v. United States (2007), Gulf Islands Leasing, Inc. v. Bombardier Capital, Inc. (2003)
6 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
Relies on Hickman v. Taylor · United States v. Nixon · Elkins v. United States · United States v. Nobles · Trammel 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was not so much whether the work product doctrine shielded counsel from producing certain documents, for it appears they had been produced in the course of discovery; rather, the issue was whether counsel was obliged to identify from voluminous discovery materials those discrete documents that the attorney had selected for review with his client in advance of deposition, or that an attorney specifically recalled as existing in her client’s files. The courts ruled that such narrowly focused inquiries constituted impermissible intrusions into attorneys’ thought processes in preparing their clients’ defenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Although the work-product doctrine most frequently is asserted as a bar to discovery in civil litigation, its role in assuring the proper functioning of the criminal justice system is even more vital. The interests of society and the accused in obtaining a fair and accurate resolution of the question of guilt or innocence demand that adequate safeguards assure the thorough preparation and presentation of each side of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“selection and compilation” exception to this general rule, which extends work product protection to documents that the attorney "has so specifically selected and compiled ... in anticipation of litigation [such] that production would necessarily reveal the attorney’s developing strategy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.