Frederick P. Schaffer v. Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of State’s Empirical Analysis
505 F.2d 389 · 1974
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Goland v. Central Intelligence Agency (1978), Carney v. United States Department of Justice (1994)
17 federal appellate · 12 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 292
Relies on Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Washington v. Cameron
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Facts respecting the classification of the reports in question are solely in the control of the [defendant agency], [Plaintiff] should be allowed to undertake discovery for the purpose of uncovering facts which might prove his right of access to the documents which he seeks.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“properly classified pursuant to executive order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brandon v. Eckard
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.