Zerilli v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2011
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Alderman v. United States · Branzburg v. Hayes · New York Times Company v. United States
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“been furnished on numerous occasions from 1967 to 1975 to various Department of Justice officials and to FBI Headquarters.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Zerilli v. Smith“the court may assume that the facts as claimed by the moving party in his statement of material facts are admitted * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Zerilli v. Smith“Grosjean v. American Press Co., 297 U.S. 233 , 250, 56 S.Ct. 444, 80 L.Ed. 660 (1936).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zerilli v. Smith
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.