United States v. Lang’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 1235 · 1986
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7605
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Fisher v. United States · United States v. Nobles · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Wilson v. United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the corporation must comply with the summons through some other person.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“adds little or nothing to the sum total of the Government's information.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Even where] a corporation’s custodian of records would incriminate himself if he were to act to produce the company’s records, this still does not relieve the corporation of its continuing obligation to produce the subpoenaed documents. In such a situation the corporation must appoint some other employee to produce the records, and if no existing employee could produce records without incriminating himself by such an act, then the corporation may be required to produce the records by supplying an entirely new agent who has no previous connection with the corporation.... There simply is no situation in which the fifth amendment would prevent a corporation from producing corporate records, for the corporation itself has no fifth amendment privilege.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.