work product
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 329 U.S. 495 - Hickman v. Taylor · 1947Most cited · 9,505 citing opinions
protection standard
the general policy against invading the privacy of an attorney's course of preparation is so well recognized and so essential to an orderly working of our system of legal procedure that a burden rests on the one who would invade that privacy to establish adequate reasons to justify production through a subpoena or court order
How often courts cite the case defining “work product”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “work product” — 9,489 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.