United States v. Baggot’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
187 federal appellate · 50 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 438 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably United States v. Sells Engineering, Inc. (1983), Dahlstrom v. Commissioner (1985)
187 federal appellate · 50 district · 19 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 6212 · 26 U.S.C. § 6331 · 7 U.S.C. § 6C
Relies on United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Douglas Oil Company of California v. Petrol Stops Northwest · United States v. Sells Engineering, Inc.
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 438 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when so directed by a court preliminarily to or in connection with a judicial proceeding.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Pitch · In Re Grand Jury 89“preliminar[y] to or in connection with a judicial proceeding”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“reflects a judgment that not every beneficial purpose, or even every valid governmental purpose, is an appropriate reason for breaching grand jury secrecy.”
10 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.