Ruotolo v. Department of Justice, Tax Division’s Empirical Analysis
53 F.3d 4 · 1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Halpern v. Federal Bureau of Investigation (1999), 499 F. Supp. 2d 501 - New York Times Co. v. United States Department of Defense (2007)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Vaughn v. Rosen · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Harris v. McRae · Oglesby v. United States Department of the Army · Goland 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in reformulating their request if it was thought that the request needed to be narrowed”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must demonstrate 'that each document that falls within the class requested either has been produced, is unidentifiable, or is wholly exempt from the Act's inspection requirements.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he defending agency [also] has the burden of showing that its search was adequate.”
2 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.