525 F. Supp. 2d 174 - Mulhern v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
26 district ·
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Applies 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Scott v. Harris · Aka v. Washington Hospital Center
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gain access to his record or to any information pertaining to him which is contained in the [record] system,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Premature Privacy Act suits [for improperly withholding documents] are dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Privacy Act only covers disclosures of information which was either directly or indirectly retrieved from a system of records. [Thus], [t]he disclosure of information derived solely from independent sources is not prohibited by the statute even though identical information may be contained in [a] system of records.”
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.