In re Sealed Case’s Empirical Analysis
829 F.2d 50 · 1987
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably In re Sealed Case (1988), North v. Walsh (1989)
19 federal appellate · 7 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 2 U.S.C. § 901 · 28 U.S.C. § 509 (Justice Department Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Enhancement Act of 1988) · 28 U.S.C. § 515 · 28 U.S.C. § 592 · 28 U.S.C. § 593 · 28 U.S.C. § 594 · 28 U.S.C. § 595 · 28 U.S.C. § 596
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Younger v. Harris · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Buckley v. Valeo
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ubject to generally applicable procedural requirements,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“full power and independent authority to exercise all investigative and prosecutorial functions and powers of the Department of Justice, the Attorney General, and any other officer or employee of the Department of Justice, except that the Attorney General shall exercise direction or control as to those matters that specifically require the Attorney General’s personal action under section 2516 of title 18 [relating to wiretaps].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“authorize[e] the performance by any other officer, employee, or agency of the Department of Justice of any function of the Attorney General.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.