In re Sealed Case’s Empirical Analysis
838 F.2d 476 · 1988
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 19 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. (2009), Morrison v. Olson (1988)
24 federal appellate · 19 district · 1 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 11 U.S.C. § 105 · 15 U.S.C. § 41 (§ 1 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 18 U.S.C. § 1505 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 1826 · 28 U.S.C. § 49 · 28 U.S.C. § 515 · 28 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Baker v. Carr · Buckley v. Valeo · Elrod v. Burns · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[discharging tasks other than the deciding of cases and controversies' ” would involve them in the process of policy and thereby”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“fully and completely a description of the work of the independent counsel, including the disposition of all cases brought, and the reasons for not prosecuting any matter within the prosecutorial jurisdiction of such independent counsel.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the termination provision [of the Ethics in Government Act] was 'intended to serve only as a measure of last resort.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.