In re Sealed Motion’s Empirical Analysis
880 F.2d 1367 · 1989
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Olson v. 86-1, In Re Oliver L. North (Omnibus Order) (1994)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 18 U.S.C. § 6002 · 28 U.S.C. § 1365 · 28 U.S.C. § 1407 · 28 U.S.C. § 591 · 28 U.S.C. § 592 · 28 U.S.C. § 594 · 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 45 U.S.C. § 719
Relies on Preiser v. Rodriguez · Brown v. General Services Administration · Morton v. Mancari · United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Shillitani 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he filing of reports by Independent Counsels is `a complete departure from the authority of a United States Attorney' and is `contrary to the practice in federal grand jury investigations.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“compared the 'functions that the Special Division is empowered to perform ... to functions that federal judges perform in other contexts, such as deciding whether to allow disclosure of matters occurring before the grand jury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A judicial proceeding includes every proceeding of a judicial nature before a competent court or before a tribunal or officer clothed with judicial or quasi-judicial powers”
1 later decision 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.