Grand Central Partnership, Inc. v. Cuomo’s Empirical Analysis
166 F.3d 473 · 1999
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 17 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably National Council of La Raza v. Department of Justice (2005), Consumer Federation of America v. Department of Agriculture (2006)
23 federal appellate · 17 district · 10 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 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 562
Relies on United States v. Nixon · National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · National Labor Relations Board v. Robbins Tire & Rubber Co.
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“recommendations, draft documents, proposals, suggestions, and other subjective documents which reflect the personal opinions of the writer rather than the policy of the agency,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) predecisional , i.e., prepared in order to assist an agency decisionmaker in arriving at his decision, and (2) deliberative , i.e., actually related to the process by which policies are formulated.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“protect a document which is merely peripheral to actual policy formation; the record must bear on the formulation or exercise of policy-oriented judgment.”
6 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.