--- title: "United States v. Nixon" citation: "United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (1974)" authority_id: "AUTH-SCOTUS-NIXON-418-US-683" authority_type: "case" jurisdiction: "federal_nationwide" precedential_status: "binding" official_url: "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USREPORTS-418/pdf/USREPORTS-418-683.pdf" url: "https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/authorities/AUTH-SCOTUS-NIXON-418-US-683/" legal_review: "2026-08-25" links_checked: "2026-10-15" links_available: 1 links_checked_count: 1 license: "CC BY 4.0" --- # United States v. Nixon ## Holding used Current Rule 17(c) is not a general criminal-discovery device, and pretrial production requires relevance, admissibility, and specificity plus the opinion's reasonable-availability, necessity, and good-faith limits. ## Material limitation The subpoena concerned precisely identified presidential recordings, and later circuits address applications including defense subpoenas and ex parte procedure. A proposed Rule 17 revision is not yet effective. ## Official source and pinpoints 418 U.S. 683, 698–702 (1974): ## Used in - [Arraignment and Pretrial Disclosure](https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/modules/20-pretrial/arraignment-and-pretrial-disclosure.md)