Skolnick v. Parsons’s Empirical Analysis
397 F.2d 523 · 1968
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2008
13 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 28 U.S.C. § 137 · 28 U.S.C. § 2071 (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Amendments) · 28 U.S.C. § 2105 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Blackmar v. Guerre · Killian v. United States · Snyder v. Buck · Francis L. Harmon v. The Superior Court Of California · Tcf Film Corporation v. Gourley
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 18 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— (5) inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]ach agency [defined in § 551(a) as “each authority of the Government of the United States,” with certain exceptions] * * '* shall make * * * [requested] records promptly available to any person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Skolnick v. Kerner“Under this statute, the plaintiff has standing because the records are to be made available 'to any person.'”
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.