United States v. Wolfson’s Empirical Analysis
55 F.3d 58 · 1995
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2020
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 15 U.S.C. § 77E (§ 5 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia · Nixon v. Warner Communications, Inc. · Waller v. Georgia
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[g]ranting the public access to . . . undiscoverable documents would furnish it with materials that do not bear on the merits of the trial to which the public has a right of access and would, in effect, give the defendant the discovery to which the court has ruled he is not entitled.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. United States v. Wecht · No 06-3098“not to provide a general discovery device for the defense; criminal defendants have no constitutional right to know the contents of Government files in order to present arguments in favor of disclosure”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“We are not aware... of any common-law principle that documents submitted to a court in camera for the sole purpose of confirming that the refusal to disclose them to another party was proper, are to be deemed judicial records open to the public.”
1 later decision 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.