Robert L. Ackerly v. Herbert L. Ley, Jr’s Empirical Analysis
420 F.2d 1336 · 1969
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 33 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1975), Department of the Air Force v. Rose (1976)
98 federal appellate · 33 district · 7 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 Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · Carl Zeiss Stiftung v. V. E. B. Carl Zeiss, Jena · Freeman v. Seligson · Crane 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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the threat of cross-examination in a public tribunal,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.”
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.