Kasza v. Browner’s Empirical Analysis
133 F.3d 1159 · 1998
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Biodiversity Legal Foundation v. Badgley (2002), Kamakana v. City and County of Honolulu (2006)
30 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Baker v. Carr · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co. · Heckler v. Chaney · Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the trial ... would inevitably lead to the disclosure of matters which the law itself regards as confidential,'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“agree[d] with the district court that [the] action must be dismissed.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]ublic policy forbids the maintenance of any suit in a court of justice, the trial of which would inevitably lead to the disclosure of matters which the law itself regards as confidential, and respecting which it will not allow the confidence to be violated.”
3 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.