United States v. Goldfarb’s Empirical Analysis
328 F.2d 280 · 1964
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Fisher v. United States (1976), United States v. Jones (1975)
40 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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 Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · United States v. White · 89 F. Supp. 357 - United States v. United Shoe MacHinery Corporation · Chirac · Bouschor 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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Where 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 instance permanently protected (7) from disclosure by himself or by the legal adviser, (8) except the protection be waived.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cloak of protection draped around all occurrences and conversations which have any bearing, direct or indirect, upon the relationship of the attorney with his client.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. the privilege stands in derogation of the public’s “right to every man’s evidence”, 8 Wigmore [McNaughton rev. ed. 1961] § 2192 at 70, and as “an obstacle to the investigation of the truth,” id., § 2291 at 554; thus, as Wigmore has said, “It ought to be strictly confined within the narrowest possible limits consistent with the logic of its principle.””
2 later decisions 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.