United States v. Stuart’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
181 federal appellate · 31 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 470 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Medellin v. Texas (2008), Chan v. Korean Air Lines, Ltd. (1989)
181 federal appellate · 31 district · 20 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
reviewedPhilip George Stuart, Sr. v. United States of America, Mons Kapoor v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Powell · United States v. National Bank · Edye v. Robertson · Air France v. Saks · United States v. Arthur Young & Co.
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 470 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[S]ummons enforcement proceedings should be summary in nature and discovery should be limited.'”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“must show that the investigation will be conducted pursuant to a legitimate purpose, that the inquiry may be relevant to the purpose, that the information sought is not already within the Commissioner's possession, and that the administrative steps required by the Code have been followed”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has recommended to the Attorney General a grand jury investigation of, or the criminal prosecution of, [the recipient of the summons] for any offense connected with the administration or enforcement of the internal revenue laws.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.