Zimmermann v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
81 F.2d 847 · 1936
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably 40 Cal. 4th 683 - Taus v. Loftus (2007), McMann v. Securities & Exchange Commission (1937)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
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. § 145
Relies on Darlington's Estate · Vollmer v. Newburger · Farmers' & Mechanics' Nat. Bank of Philadelphia 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We rest on substance when we regard the right of Zimmermann and his wife ... as the real parties in interest, and their bankers and brokers as mere agents It is the information the bankers' books contain, and not the books in which that information is recorded, that is the property right .... this court protects by injunctive relief .... [W]e regard the search here asserted as a violation of the natural law of privacy in one's own affairs which exists in liberty loving people and nations”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We rest on substance when we regard the right of Zimmermann and his wife ... as the real parties in interest, and their bankers and brokers as mere agents.... It is the information the bankers' books contain, and not the books in which that information is recorded, that is the property right ... this court protects by injunctive relief”
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.