People v. Rickard’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Vasquez v. Hillery · Douglas Oil Company of California v. Petrol Stops Northwest · Bank of Nova Scotia v. United States · United States v. Mechanik
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Grand jury secrecy is intended only to prevent disclosure of what transpires or will transpire before the grand jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any error, defect, irregularity, or variance which does not affect substantial rights shall be disregarded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. People v. Bergen
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.