Mitchell v. Samuels’s Empirical Analysis
2016
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Applies 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Oglesby v. United States Department of the Army · King v. United States Department of Justice · Defenders of Wildlife v. United States Border Patrol · Wilbur v. Central Intelligence Agency
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“amounts to a failure to exhaust administrative remedies, which warrants dismissal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A FOIA plaintiff's failure to exhaust administrative remedies before filing a civil action is properly treated as a failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If no FOIA request is received, an agency has no reason to search”
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.