In Re Oliver L. North (Shultz Fee Application)’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably In Re Oliver L. North (Bush Fee Application) (1995), In re Pierce (1999)
42 federal appellate · 6 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 United States v. North · Olson v. 86-1 · In re Sealed Case · In Re Raymond J Donovan · In Re Edwin Meese III
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Independent Counsel might reasonably be expected to point the finger of accusation”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as a person whose conduct is within the scope of the independent counsel's investigation such that”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is not reasonable to expect that a professional prosecutor, as opposed to an independent counsel under the Act, would have been making subjects out of persons theretofore treated as witnesses four and one-half years after the commencement of an investigation.”
9 later decisions 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.