464 So. 2d 1330 - Lorei v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2016
14 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. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Vaughn v. Rosen · 372 So. 2d 420 - Wait v. Florida Power & Light Co. · 199 So. 2d 97 - Orlowitz v. Orlowitz · News-Press Publishing Co., Inc. v. Gadd · Warden v. Bennett
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the demand for disclosure competes with a public interest, asserted to be protected by a statutory exemption, the judiciary's role is to insure that the governmental claim does not defeat the right to disclosure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The breadth of such right is virtually unfettered....”
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.