135 Md. App. 152 - Bowen v. Davison’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Department of the Air Force v. Rose · National Labor Relations Board v. Robbins Tire & Rubber Co. · United States Department of Justice v. Landano · Heat & Power Corp. v. Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“believes that inspection of a part of a public record by the applicant would be contrary to the public interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.