Kaye v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably Gilbert A. Cuneo v. Donald H. Rumsfeld (1977), Nationwide Building Maintenance, Inc. v. Sampson (1977)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 12 U.S.C. § 1844 (§ 5 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956) · 15 U.S.C. § 1640 (§ 130 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1857 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000A · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 3612 (§ 812 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968)) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 7 U.S.C. § 2218
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · United States v. Calandra · Powell v. McCormack · Sosna v. Iowa
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The benefit to the public, if any deriving from the case; (2) the commercial benefit to the complainant; (3) the nature of the complainant’s interest in the records sought; and (4) whether the government’s withholding of the records sought had a reasonable basis in law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the salutory purposes of the statute to encourage voluntary compliance with the FOIA, and to encourage suit where an agency has wrongfully withheld requested material could be too easily rendered nugatory if the government could force a party into litigation and then deprive that party of the right to recover expenses incident to bringing the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goldstein v. Levi“a court would generally award fees if the complainant’s interest in the information was scholarly or journalistic or public-interest oriented, but would not do so if his interest was of a frivolous or purely commercial nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goldstein v. Levi
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.