Donovan v. Spadea’s Empirical Analysis
757 F.2d 74 · 1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2013
3 federal appellate · 2 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 26 U.S.C. § 7602 · 29 U.S.C. § 521
Relies on Hoffman v. United States · United States v. Powell · Donaldson v. United States · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · United States v. National Bank
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do no more than establish standards for determining when an administrative agency that has only civil enforcement powers is engaged in an investigation aimed at developing a criminal case, and is hence acting beyond its statutory authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“recognize a general, albeit nonconstitutional, rule that administrative subpoenas issued to develop criminal cases are unenforceable.”
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.