Irons v. Schuyler’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1992
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Bristol-Myers Co. v. Federal Trade Commission · Robert L. Ackerly v. Herbert L. Ley, Jr · Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. v. Renegotiation Board
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the United States Patent Office maintain and make available for public inspection and copying a current index providing identifying information for the public as to the unpublished manuscript decisions of the Patent Office since July 4, 1967, insofar as the same is required by 5 U.S.C. § 552 (a)(2).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Irons v. Gottschalk“all unpublished manuscript decisions of the Patent Office, together with such indices as are available,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a broad, sweeping, indiscriminate request for production lacking any specificity,”
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.