229 Md. App. 209 - Amster v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Vaughn v. Rosen · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Tallman v. Northwest Acute Care Corp. · Lopes v. City of Peabody
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A custodian shall deny inspection of the part of a public record that contains any of the following information provided by or obtained from any person or governmental unit: (1) a trade secret; (2) confidential commercial information; (3) confidential financial information; or (4) confidential geological or geophysical information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Amster v. Baker
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.