Forsham v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
144 federal appellate · 156 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 541 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably Kissinger v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (1980), Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Abramson (1982)
144 federal appellate · 156 district · 81 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7602
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · United States v. Orleans · Kissinger v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · Bradley v. Weinberger
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 541 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘preserved or appropriate for preservation by that agency ... as evidence of the ... activities of the Government.’”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(E)xtensive, detailed and virtually day-to-day supervision”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'made or received by an agency of the United States Government under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business' ” and”
8 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.