United States v. Ehrlichman’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Washington v. Texas · Gravel v. United States · United States v. Augenblick · United States v. Brewster
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he subpoenaed testimony is not in the possession of the Government within the meaning of that decision, since the Subcommittee is neither an investigative or a prosecutorial arm of the Executive branch nor an agency of the Government in any way involved in the offense or related transactions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Calley v. Callaway“on the ground that prior testimony of Hunt given under oath in executive session before the Subcommittee on Intelligence of the House Armed Services Committee last year has not been produced . . ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Calley v. Callaway
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.