Maricopa Audubon Society v. United States Forest Service’s Empirical Analysis
108 F.3d 1082 · 1997
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Milner v. Department of the Navy (2011), Milner v. Department of the Navy (2011)
20 federal appellate · 12 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 5 U.S.C. § 1002 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 7 U.S.C. § 2223
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Department of the Air Force v. Rose · United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Abramson · United States Department of Justice v. Tax Analysts
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“interagency or intra-agency memorandums or letters that would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency ....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“mandates a policy of broad disclosure of government documents.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“), appeal the denial of a request they filed pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552 . The request sought material that identifies the nest sites of northern goshawks on national forest land. The United States Forest Service denied the request on the ground that the information fell within exemption 2 of FOIA, which exempts from disclosure matters that are”
2 later decisions 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.