Vaughn v. Rosen’s Empirical Analysis
523 F.2d 1136 · 1975
Citation profile
125 federal appellate · 133 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 356 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Department of the Air Force v. Rose (1976), Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Abramson (1982)
125 federal appellate · 133 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 28 U.S.C. § 292 · 29 U.S.C. § 651 (§ 2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 44 U.S.C. § 305 · 5 U.S.C. § 1002 · 5 U.S.C. § 3301 (Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998) · 5 U.S.C. § 4101 · 5 U.S.C. § 4501 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Vaughn v. Rosen · Barrett v. United States · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc.
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 356 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a direct part of the deliberative process in that it makes recommendations or expresses opinions on legal or policy matters.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“through some chain of circumstances to the”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“internal personnel rules and practices of an agency.”
5 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.