Charles River Park "A", Inc. v. Department of Housing & Urban Development’s Empirical Analysis
519 F.2d 935 · 1975
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 18 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2006 · most notably Chrysler Corporation v. Brown (1979), Mead Data Central, Inc. v. United States Department of Air Force (1977)
60 federal appellate · 18 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 12 U.S.C. § 1715K · 18 U.S.C. § 1905 · 28 U.S.C. § 294 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Camp v. Pitts · Brewer v. United States · Wyandotte Transportation Co. v. United States · Pickus v. United States Board of Parole
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. commercial or financial matter is “confidential” for purposes of the exemption if disclosure of the information is likely to have either of the following effects: (1) to impair the Government’s ability to obtain necessary information in the future; or (2) to cause substantial harm to the competitive position of the person from whom the information was obtained.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * Thus, the district court should hold a hearing to determine whether the information involved here would have been exempt just as it would if a suit had been brought under the FOIA to compel disclosure.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(s)ince only the FOIA's fourth exemption deals with matters covered by section 1905, consideration of section 1905 in FOIA cases is appropriate only when the information falls both within the fourth exemption and under section 1905.”
4 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.