United States v. George’s Empirical Analysis
444 F.2d 310 · 1971
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2013 · most notably Gelbard v. United States (1972), United States v. Mandujano (1976)
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 2514 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 28 U.S.C. § 1826
Relies on Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · Lutwak v. United States · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Blair v. United States · Hawkins 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]o long as it is not the sole or dominant purpose of the grand jury to discover facts relating to [a defendant's] pending indictment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No such witness shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he is compelled . . . to testify or produce evidence, nor shall testimony so compelled be used as evidence in any criminal proceeding . . . against him in any court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not relate to his wife nor to any communication with her.”
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.