Ditlow v. Brinegar’s Empirical Analysis
494 F.2d 1073 · 1974
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2005 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1975), National Labor Relations Board v. Robbins Tire & Rubber Co. (1978)
38 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 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
Relies on Weisberg v. U. S. Department of Justice · 161 U.S. App. D.C. 114 - City of New York v. Train · Ditlow v. Volpe
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. There are no apparent problems with confidential sources, premature revelation of suspects and the like. And most certainly in the present case there is no problem about discovery of the information by the subject of the investigation, since the auto manufacturer is either the recipient or the source of all the correspondence here sought. “Disclosure of materials already in the hands of po tential parties to law enforcement proceedings can in no way be said to interfere with an agency’s legitimate law enforcement functions and, therefore, such material is not within the exception of § 552(b)(7).” (Footnotes omitted.)”
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.