Daniel Fiduccia’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Cozzo v. Tangipahoa Parish Council-President Government (2002), 404 F. Supp. 2d 246 - Leadership Conference on Civil Rights v. Gonzales (2005)
1 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 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
Relies on United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · Vaughn v. Rosen · Wiener v. Federal Bureau of Investigation · Minier v. Central Intelligence Agency · Schiffer v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Though this is review of a summary judgment, our review in a FOIA summary judgment case is not simply de novo, nor do we ask whether there is a genuine issue of fact in most cases. Instead, in a FOIA case, we first determine whether the district judge had an adequate factual basis for decision, and if not, remand.”); see, e.g., Heeney v. FDA, 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23365 (C.D.Cal., Mar. 11, 1999) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“provide enough information, presented with sufficient detail, clarity, and verification, so that the requester can fairly determine what has not been produced and why, and the court can decide whether the exemptions claimed justify the nondisclosure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“purpose of the index is to afford the FOIA requester a meaningful opportunity to contest, and the district court an adequate opportunity to review, the soundness of the withholding.”
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.