Hatfill v. Gonzales’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 district · 1 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The Supreme Court has noted in the context of privilege in grand jury cases that it “cannot seriously entertain the notion that the First Amendment protects a newsman’s agreement to conceal the criminal conduct of his source, or evidence thereof, on the theory that it is better to write about crime than to do something about it.” Branzburg, 408 U.S. at 692, 92 S.Ct. 2646 , quoted in In re Grand Jury Subpoena, Judith Miller, 397 F.3d 964, 970 (D.C.Cir.2005). The same principle applies here; the protections of the Privacy Act do not disappear when the illegally disclosed information is leaked to a journalist, no matter how newsworthy the government official may feel the information is.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hatfill v. Mukasey

2. “(4) the term “record” means any item, collection, or grouping of information about an individual that is maintained by an agency, ... and that contains his name, or the identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual, such as a finger or voice print or a photograph;”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 818 F. Supp. 2d 4 - Paige v. United States Drug Enforcement Administration