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← 39 F. Supp. 3d 21 - Westcott v. McHugh

39 F. Supp. 3d 21 - Westcott v. McHugh’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
May 2018
most recently cited

3 district ·

Relationships

Applies 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974) · 5 U.S.C. § 704 · 5 U.S.C. § 706

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife

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.

  1. “a plaintiff cannot bring an APA claim to obtain relief for an alleged Privacy Act violation,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “), and the Administrative Procedure Act (”
    1 later decision 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.