Morley v. Central Intelligence Agency’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.3d 1108 · 2007
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 214 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 347 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Public Citizen, Inc. v. Office of Management & Budget (2009), Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington v. United States Department of Justice (2014)
27 federal appellate · 214 district · 7 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 44 U.S.C. § 2107 (Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018) · 50 U.S.C. § 401A (§ 3 of the National Security Act of 1947) · 50 U.S.C. § 403G (Servicemembers Civil Relief Act) · 50 U.S.C. § 431 (§ 701 of the National Security Act of 1947) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Department of the Air Force v. Rose · Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Vaughn v. Rosen
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 347 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably calculated to uncover all relevant documents.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny reasonably segregable portion of a record shall be provided to any person requesting such record after deletion of the portions which are exempt.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conclusory and generalized allegations of exemptions.”
8 later decisions 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.