Schnell v. Schnall’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2014
4 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on In re Sealed Case · Diversified Industries, Inc. v. Meredith · Republic Gear Co. v. Borg-Warner Corp. · Permian Corporation v. United States · Teachers Insurance & Annuity Ass'n of America v. Shamrock Broadcasting 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[i]t is apparent that voluntary cooperation with the Securities' and Exchange Commission or with an Internal Revenue Service or grand jury investigation would be substantially curtailed if such cooperation were deemed to be a waiver of a corporation’s attorney-client privilege.’ ... [Such cooperation] should be encouraged rather than requiring that agency requests or subpoenas be fought to the hilt.”
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.