United States v. Penrod’s Empirical Analysis
609 F.2d 1092 · 1979
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably United States v. Whitehead (1980), United States v. Silva (1984)
19 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
Relies on Boyd v. United States · United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Dennis v. United States · Counselman v. Hitchcock · United States v. Miller
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[g]enerally, only the court that has jurisdiction over the grand jury has authority to direct disclosure....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“matter[s] occurring before the grand jury”
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.