In re Sealed Case’s Empirical Analysis
655 F.2d 1298 · 1981
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably In re Sealed Case (1982), In re Sealed Case (1984)
20 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on United States v. Nixon · Cobbledick v. United States · Di Bella v. United States · Lewis v. United States · United States v. Ryan
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since an employer exercises significant control over an in-house employee, the Perlman argument flags when an employer moves to quash a subpoena addressed to such an employee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“limited class of cases where denial of immediate review would render impossible any review whatsoever.”
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.