In re Sealed Case’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 83 · 1989
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Barrett v. Acevedo (1999), Grand Jury Subpoena Duces Tecum Dated October United States v. Doe (1993)
15 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Fisher v. United States · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Wilson v. United States · United States v. White · United States v. Doe
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Individuals, when acting as representatives of a collective group, cannot be said to be exercising their personal rights and duties nor to be entitled to their purely personal privileges. Rather they assume the rights, duties and privileges of the artificial entity or association of which they are agents or officers and they are bound by its obligations. In their official capacity, therefore, they have no privilege against self-incrimination. And the official records and documents of the organization that are held by them in a representative rather than in a personal capacity cannot be the subject of the personal privilege against self-incrimination, even though production of the papers might tend to incriminate them personally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not cover the contents of any voluntarily prepared records, including personal ones”
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.