Zerilli v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2005
4 federal appellate · 1 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. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Branzburg v. Hayes · Lubin v. Allison · Flying Tiger Line, Inc. v. Philippine Air Lines, Inc. · Baker v. F & F Investment
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that his only practical access to crucial information necessary for the development of the case is through the newsman's sources.”
2 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.