In Re Minkoff’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1994 · most notably Lance v. United States Department of Justice (1980), United States v. Frumento (1977)
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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. § 6002
Relies on Kastigar v. United States · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. United States · Posey 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no merit in a paranoid secrecy for the sake of secrecy itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Where termination is a condition of disclosure, it is obvious that such disclosure can neither help nor harm the completed investigation. In such circumstances I find I have the power to order disclosure, without deciding today the power of the court to order disclosure of grand jury minutes which would take effect before the dismissal of the grand jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(t)he seal of secrecy on witnesses seems an unnecessary hardship and may lead to injustice if a witness is not permitted to make a disclosure to counsel or to an associate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.