In re Sealed Case’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 976 · 1989
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 52 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably United States v. North (1990), In re Sealed Case (1997)
46 federal appellate · 52 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 28 U.S.C. § 1826
Relies on United States v. Nixon · Pierce v. Underwood · United States v. Calandra · Costello v. United States · United States v. Dionisio
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he courts will grant no greater protection to those who assert the privilege than their own precautions warrant.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'to all other communications relating to the same subject matter.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“imposes a self-governing restraint on the freedom with which organizations such as corporations ... label documents related to communications with counsel as privileged. To readily do so creates a greater risk of “inadvertent” disclosure by someone and thereby the danger that the “waiver” will extend to all related matters____ Otherwise, there is a temp tation to seek artificially to expand the content of privileged matter.”
3 later decisions 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.