Curcio v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
289 federal appellate · 63 district · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 767 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Fisher v. United States (1976), Couch v. United States (1973)
289 federal appellate · 63 district · 105 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Curcio (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hoffman v. United States · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Wilson v. United States · United States v. White · Shapiro 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 767 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Requiring the custodian to identify or authenticate the documents for admission in evidence merely makes explicit what is implicit in the production itself.'”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“forcing the custodian to testify orally as to the whereabouts of nonproduced records requires him to disclose the contents of his own mind. He might be compelled to convict himself out of his own mouth. That is contrary to the spirit and letter of the Fifth Amendment.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he books and records of corporations cannot be insulated from reasonable demands of governmental authorities by a claim of personal privilege on the part of their custodian.”
4 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.