In re Impounded Case (Law Firm)’s Empirical Analysis
879 F.2d 1211 · 1989
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Haines v. Liggett Group Inc. (1992), United States v. Console (1993)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on United States v. Zolin · Garber v. United States · Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n v. Ogilvie · Vannier v. United States · In re Sealed Case
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“materials relating solely to possible criminal activity of [a] law firm”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“pertinent alleged criminality is solely that of the law firm,”
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.