Fink v. Lefkowitz’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2021
9 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Thus, the agency does not have carte blanche to withhold any information it pleases. Rather it is required to articulate particularized and specific justification ... to exempt its records from disclosure. Only where the material requested falls squarely within the ambit of one of these statutory exemptions may disclosure be withheld" ( Matter of Fink, 47 N.Y.2d at 571 , 419 N.Y.S.2d 467 , 393 N.E.2d 463 [citation omitted] ).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'premise that the public is vested with an inherent right to know and that official secrecy is anathematic to our form of government'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Legislature established a general policy of disclosure by enacting the Freedom of Information Law”
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.