McKeand v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
490 F.2d 1262 · 1973
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1990
5 federal appellate ·
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. § 554 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Greene v. McElroy · Corallo v. United States · Rodriguez v. Lash
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.
““Access to classified information shall be granted or continued only to those individuals who have been determined eligible based upon a finding that to do so is clearly consistent with the national interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marks v. Schlesinger“the government (must) offer proof of a rational nexus between (individual's) alleged homosexuality and his ability to safeguard classified information”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“made specific findings of fact clearly describing why his homosexuality posed a threat of divulgence of classified material”
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.