Petkas v. Staats’s Empirical Analysis
501 F.2d 887 · 1974
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 90 Wash. 2d 123 - Hearst Corp. v. Hoppe (1978), Public Citizen Health Research Group v. Food & Drug Administration (1983)
21 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 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 Vaughn v. Rosen · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Schmerler Ford, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · Getman v. National Labor Relations Board · National Parks & Conservation Ass'n v. Morton
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Nor can a promise of confidentiality in and of itself defeat the right of disclosure.” (citing cases)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.