Pifer v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1992
2 district ·
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 44 U.S.C. § 1501 · 44 U.S.C. § 1505 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · Schwartz v. Covington
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) This section does not apply to matters that are — _ (2) related solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of an agency....”
2 later decisions 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.