Sinclair v. Kleindienst’s Empirical Analysis
645 F.2d 1080 · 1981
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Mitchell v. Forsyth (1985), Atchinson v. District of Columbia (1996)
15 federal appellate · 15 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
Relies on Katz v. United States · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Foman v. Davis · Butz v. Economou · Wood v. Strickland
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there was no judicially imposed reasonableness requirement for national security wiretaps at the time,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“predated any judicial requirement for them in national security surveillance,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“plaintiffs should be allowed appropriate further discovery as long as they proceed with due diligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sinclair v. Schriber
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.