Feldberg 1987 Walters’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Donald Rehling v. The City of Chicago, a Municipal Corporation (2000), Grand Jury Proceedings Thursday Special Grand Jury September Term United States v. Under Seal (1994)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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
Relies on Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · United States v. Nixon · United States v. Calandra · Upjohn Company v. United States · Fisher 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'come forward with [an] explanation.... If the court finds the explanation satisfactory, the privilege remains.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“something to give colour to the charge . . . that has some foundation in fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When information is disclosed for the purpose of assembly into a bankruptcy petition and supporting schedules, there is no intent for the information to be held in confidence because the information is to be disclosed on documents publicly filed with the bankruptcy court.... “information imparted to counsel without any expectation of confidentiality is not privileged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re French
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.