Dowd v. Calabrese’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably N.F.A. Corp. v. Riverview Narrow Fabrics, Inc. (1987), 640 F. Supp. 1126 - Johnson v. Sawyer (1986)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 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 13 U.S.C. § 8 · 18 U.S.C. § 2517 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 26 U.S.C. § 6103 · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on Hickman v. Taylor · Upjohn Company v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Douglas Oil Company of California v. Petrol Stops Northwest · Vaughn v. Rosen
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“depends ... upon a balancing of the public interest in nondisclosure with the need for the information as evidence.”
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.