Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
631 federal appellate · 123 district · 228 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,459 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Dennis v. United States (1966), Douglas Oil Company of California v. Petrol Stops Northwest (1979)
631 federal appellate · 123 district · 228 state decisions — followed in 29 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
reviewedPittsburgh Plate Glass Co. v. United States (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Berger v. United States · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Costello v. United States · McNabb v. United States · United States v. Procter & Gamble Co.
Cited together with United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Dennis v. United States · Douglas Oil Company of California v. Petrol Stops Northwest · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Costello 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 1,459 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(e) Secrecy of Proceedings and Disclosure. Disclosure of matters occurring before the grand jury other than its deliberations and the vote of any juror may be made to the attorneys for the government for use in the performance of their duties. Otherwise a juror, attorney, interpreter, stenographer, operator of a recording device, or any typist who transcribes recorded testimony may disclose matters occurring before the grand jury only when so directed by the court preliminarily to or in connection with a judicial proceeding or when permitted by the court at the request of the defendant upon a showing that grounds may exist for a motion to dismiss the indictment because of matters occurring before the grand jury. No obligation of secrecy may be imposed upon any person except in accordance with this rule. The court may direct that an indictment shall be kept secret until the defendant is in custody or has given bail, and in that event the clerk shall seal the indictment and no person shall disclose the finding of the indictment except when necessary for the issuance and execution of a warrant or summons.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“problems concerning the use of the grand jury transcript at the trial to impeach a witness, to refresh his recollection, to test his credibility and the like”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“those are cases of particularized need where the secrecy of the proceedings is lifted discreetly and limitedly.”
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.