Morrow v. FBI & U.S. Department of Justice’s Empirical Analysis
2 F.3d 642 · 1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2016
1 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Neitzke v. Williams · McCleskey v. Zant · Denton v. Hernandez · Open America v. Watergate Special Prosecution Force · United States v. Weathersby
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the agency has been diligently working on the request, but has been unable to meet the deadline due to exceptional circumstances. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the volume of requests for information [are] vastly in excess of that anticipated by Congress.”
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.