Nolen v. Rumsfeld’s Empirical Analysis
535 F.2d 890 · 1976
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Kissinger v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (1980), Oglesby v. United States Department of the Army (1990)
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 Lenard Wallace Nolen, Sr. v. Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense · 384 F. Supp. 755 - Exxon Corp. v. Federal Trade Commission
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“make [ ] records promptly available to any person,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requires only availability, not delivery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“seeking production of missing records . . . is not within the purview of the Freedom of Information Act”
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.