Moon v. Central Intelligence Agency’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 798 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 50 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 101 of the National Security Act of 1947) · 50 U.S.C. § 403 (§ 102 of the National Security Act of 1947)
Relies on Examining Board of Engineers v. de Otero · Hayden v. National Security Agency/Central Security Service · Estelle v. Passmore · Ray v. Turner · Weissman v. Central Intelligence Agency
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he law is clear that in order to obtain a continuance for further discovery or any other dispensation from the requirements of Rule 56(e), the opposing party must state in an affidavit the reasons for its inability to present an affidavit on personal knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pfeil v. Rogers“the disclosure of the organization or any function of the National Security Agency, or any information with respect to the activities thereof....”
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.