United States v. Ehrlichman’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2003
12 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Brady v. State of Maryland · Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by a century of legal experience, which teaches that the courts have broad authority to inquire into national security matters so long as proper safeguards are applied to avoid unwarranted disclosures”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Doe v. Tenet · Doe v. Tenet“carefully limited to the issue of wiretapping, a relatively nonintrusive search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the special problem of national security wiretaps”
1 later decision 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.