Pratt v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2012
3 federal appellate · 3 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 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on Department of the Air Force v. Rose · Vaughn v. Rosen · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Lesar v. United States Department of Justice · Hayden v. National Security Agency/Central Security Service
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All files, records, memoranda, or other data or materials filed under my name or obtainable by your agency by searching through other files and materials for documents which contain my name.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pratt v. Webster · Pratt v. Webster“In Lesar, at 492, the court noted that the focus of its analysis was on determining whether the information was supplied by a confidential source. 'Once that question is answered in the affirmative, all such information obtained from the confidential source receives protection.' The affidavits properly index the material for which the exemption was invoked. In all five categories for the claimed exemption the defendant has established the confidentiality of the source.”
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.