American Mail Line, Ltd. v. Gulick’s Empirical Analysis
411 F.2d 696 · 1969
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 20 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1975), Goland v. Central Intelligence Agency (1978)
82 federal appellate · 20 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
Relies on United States v. O'Brien · Champlin Refining Co. v. Corporation Commission · Virginia Petroleum Jobbers Association v. Federal Power Commission, Blue Ridge Gas Company, Intervenor. Petition for Review of Order of the Federal Power Commission, No. 14583. Virginia Petroleum Jobbers Association v. Federal Power Commission, Appeal From United States District Court for the District of Columbia · Terrace v. Thompson · Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. United States
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(w)hen it chose this course of action `as a matter of convenience' * * * the memorandum lost its intra-agency status and became a public record, one which must be disclosed to appellants”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“jurisdiction to enjoin the agency from withholding agency records and to order the production of any agency records improperly withheld from the complainant,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Freedom of Information Act was promulgated in 1966 ( 80 Stat. 250 ) with a stipulation that it would not take effect until July 4, 1967, ( 81 Stat. 54 ) and it is now codified in 5 U.S.C. § 522 (Supp. III. 1965-1967). An exploration of the legislative history behind this enactment reveals that the premier purpose of the Act was to elucidate the availability of Government records and actions to the American citizen. In addition, Congress sought to eliminate much of the vagueness of the old law (section three of the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946, 60 Stat. 238 ). The Senate Report characterized the purpose of the Act as follows (S.Rep.No.813 at 2-3): “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both. With this noble purpose we wholeheartedly agree. * * *” ( 411 F.2d at 699 .”
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.