United States v. Sharpe’s Empirical Analysis
995 F.2d 49 · 1993
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024
8 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 1958 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Bradenburg v. Beaman · Bolden v. United States · United States v. Southland Corp. · United States v. Edwards · United States v. Watson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ealing in the first instance is but a ministerial act, and it is wholly within the discretion of the Magistrate whether to require the prosecutor to justify a request to seal.”
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.