In re Sealed Case’s Empirical Analysis
494 F.3d 139 · 2007
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably Haley v. City of Boston (2011), Wilson v. Libby (2008)
6 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 2072
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · United States v. Nixon · Hanna v. Plumer · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we briefly address its meaning, so as to provide guidance to the district court on remand and to future courts in our circuit addressing the implications of the Government's invocation of the state secrets privilege. The most useful discussion of the meaning of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he controlling inquiry is not whether the general subject - 25 - matter of an action can be described without resort to state secrets. Rather, we must ascertain whether an action can be litigated without threatening the disclosure of such state secrets.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As Judge Learned Hand observed, a claim of the state secrets privilege will often impose a grievous hardship, for it may deprive parties . . . of power to assert their rights or to defend themselves. That is a consequence of any evidentiary privilege.”
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.