United States v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
627 F.2d 349 · 1980
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020
7 federal appellate ·
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 United Steelworkers v. Weber · Doe v. Rosenberry · In re Grand Jury Proceedings · 406 F. Supp. 1098 - Robert Hawthorne, Inc. v. Director of Internal Revenue · In re Grand Jury Subpoenas
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“denied the Commission’s petition, holding that the grand jury materials sought are not preliminary to or in connection with a judicial proceeding as required by the Rule. We affirm. See In re: Grand Jury Proceedings, 309 F.2d 440 (3rd Cir. 1962) (Federal Trade Commission investigation was administrative, and not preliminary to a judicial proceeding).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“disciplinary proceedings of lawyers * * * are a function which has been assigned to the judiciary from time immemorial. It is not only preliminary to a judicial proceeding, it is part of a judicial proceeding.”
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.