Weinberger v. Catholic Action of Hawaii/Peace Education Project’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
126 federal appellate · 38 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 299 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably United States v. Mitchell (1983), Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council (1989)
126 federal appellate · 38 district ·
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
reviewedCatholic Action of Hawaii/Peace Education Project v. Brown (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2011 (Atomic Energy Act of 1954) · 42 U.S.C. § 2014 (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009) · 42 U.S.C. § 4332 (§ 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Kleppe v. Sierra Club · United States v. Reynolds · Kissinger v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
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 299 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to inform the public that the agency has considered environmental concerns in its decisionmaking process.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“significantly affect( ) the quality of the human environment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““public policy forbids the maintenance of any suit in a court of justice, the trial of which would inevitably lead to the disclosure of matters which the law itself regards as confidential, and respecting which it will not allow the confidence to be violated.””
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.