Wellford v. Hardin’s Empirical Analysis
444 F.2d 21 · 1971
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1999 · most notably Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink (1973), Getman v. National Labor Relations Board (1971)
36 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
Relies on Wisconsin v. Constantineau · Bristol-Myers Co. v. Federal Trade Commission · Barceloneta Shoe Corporation v. Compton · 315 F. Supp. 175 - Wellford v. Hardin
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(b) This section does not apply to matters that are— ****** “(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; ****** “(7) investigatory files compiled for law enforcement purposes except to the extent available by law to a party other than an agency * * 5”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(3) * * * each agency, on request for identifiable records made in accordance with published rules stating the time, place, fees to the extent authorized by statute, and procedure to be followed, shall make the records promptly available to any person. On complaint, the district court of the United States in the district in which the complainant resides, or has his principal place of business, or in which the agency records are situated, has jurisdiction to enjoin the agency from withholding agency records and to order the production of any agency records improperly withheld from the complainant. In such a case the court shall determine the matter de novo and the burden is on the agency to sustain its action * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We agree with the district court that the legislative history of this exemption reveals that its purpose was to prevent premature discovery by a defendant in an enforcement proceeding. The reports of the House Government Operations Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee define the purpose of the exemption as the protection of the government’s case in court. [Here] the request for records does not come from a party facing an enforcement proceeding to which the investigative material is germane.””
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.