Alan McSurely and Margaret McSurely v. John J. McClellan’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 1024 · 1975
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982), San Filippo v. U.S. Trust Co. of New York, Inc. (1984)
15 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · United States v. Calandra · Elkins v. United States · Brown Shoe Co. 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a Congressional committee lawfully may forward to appropriate Executive agencies information which it believes relates to their legitimate functions particularly in a case, such as this, where the agency itself requested the information.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t would appear impossible to subpoena materials relating to an investigation without first obtaining enough information to know to whom, where, and for what the subpoena should be directed. The gathering of such information, whether in preparation for a subpoena, an investigatory hearing, or a legislative report seems an integral part of Congress’ investigative function and entitled to the same protection as the use of that information within Congress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tavoulareas v. Piro“[T]he question of appealability does not turn on the correctness of an appellant's claim (at least so long as it is not frivolous). Rather, the issue is whether his right to appellate review of that claim--whether ultimately successful or not--will be effectively lost if jurisdiction is denied.”
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.