United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
636 F.2d 1028 · 1981
Citation profile
99 federal appellate · 18 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 266 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably United States v. Adlman (1998), Huie v. DeShazo (1996)
99 federal appellate · 18 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Rakas v. Illinois · Schmerber v. State of California · Hickman v. Taylor · Boyd v. United States · United States v. Calandra
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 266 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is admittedly difficult to reduce to a neat general formula the relationship between preparation of a document and possible litigation necessary to trigger the protection of the work product doctrine,”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“principle enunciated by Powell as a gloss on [26 U.S.C.] Sec. 7605(b)'s prohibition of”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ny incriminating papers in the actual or constructive possession of an individual, which he holds in his individual capacity, rather than in a representative capacity, and which he himself wrote or which were written under his immediate supervision, are absolutely protected by the Boyd principle from production by subpoena or equivalent process, regardless of whether they are business-related or more inherently personal in content.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.