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448 F.2d 1067 · 1971

Citation profile

558
cited by 558 later decisions
8
cited 8 times by the Supreme Court
11
states following
May 2024
most recently cited

259 federal appellate · 113 district · 20 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 558 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Department of the Air Force v. Rose (1976), Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink (1973)

259 federal appellate · 113 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 11 states

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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. § 291 · 31 U.S.C. § 321 · 42 U.S.C. § 1862 · 42 U.S.C. § 1975C · 49 U.S.C. § 329 · 5 U.S.C. § 1002 · 5 U.S.C. § 2954 · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)

Relies on Baker v. Carr · Udall v. Tallman · Roviaro v. United States · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Powell v. McCormack

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 558 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “By directing disclosure to any person, the Act precludes consideration of the interests of the party seeking relief.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Getman v. National Labor Relations Board · Tennessean Newspapers, Inc. v. Federal Housing Administration
  2. “each authority of the Government of the United States, whether or not it is within or subject to review by another agency.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Meyer v. Bush · United to Protect Democracy v. Presidential Advisory Comm'n on Election Integrity
  3. “financial information obtained from a person and confidential”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Critical Mass Energy Project v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission · National Parks and Conservation Association v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary, Department of the Interior

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.