Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Department of Justice’s Empirical Analysis
432 F.3d 366 · 2005
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 72 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Martin v. Department of Justice (2007), Echostar Communications Corporation Dbs Pc (2006)
12 federal appellate · 72 district · 1 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 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Hickman v. Taylor · Tao v. Freeh L · Tax Analysts v. Internal Revenue Service · In re Sealed Case · Schiller v. National Labor Relations Board
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he circuit's case law is clear that the work-product doctrine simply does not distinguish between factual and deliberative material.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f a document is fully protected as work product, then segregability is not required.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“factual materials prepared in anticipation of litigation,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.