United States v. Stern’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.2d 1364 · 1975
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably United States v. Jones (1982), Federal Trade Commission v. TRW, Inc. (1980)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 7201 · 29 U.S.C. § 186 (§ 302 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on United States v. Kovel · In re Bonanno · Blankenship v. Rowntree · United States v. Andreadis
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Where legal advice of any kind is sought (2) from a professional legal ad-visor acting in his capacity as such, (3) the communications relating to that purpose, (4) made in confidence, (5) by the client, (6) are at his instance permanently protected (7) from disclosure by himself or by the legal advisor, (8) except the protection be waived....””
2 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.