General Services Administration v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
415 F.2d 878 · 1969
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1975), Department of the Air Force v. Rose (1976)
82 federal appellate · 8 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on United States v. Reynolds · Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. United States · Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · Carl Zeiss Stiftung v. V. E. B. Carl Zeiss, Jena · Freeman v. Seligson
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(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.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In exercising the equity jurisdiction conferred by the Freedom of Information Act, the court must weigh the effects of disclosure and nondisclosure, according to traditional equity principles, and determine the best course to follow in the given circumstances. The effect on the public is the primary consideration.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential.”
3 later decisions 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.