Phillippi v. Central Intelligence Agency’s Empirical Analysis
546 F.2d 1009 · 1976
Citation profile
137 federal appellate · 125 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 335 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Military Audit Project v. Casey (1981), Goland v. Central Intelligence Agency (1978)
137 federal appellate · 125 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
Relies on Department of the Air Force v. Rose · Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Vaughn v. Rosen · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Examining Board of Engineers v. de Otero
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 335 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“particular types of matter to be withheld.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to provide a public affidavit explaining in as much detail as is possible the basis for its claim that it can be required neither to confirm nor to deny the existence of the requested records. The Agency’s arguments should then be subject to testing by appellant, who should be allowed to seek appropriate discovery when necessary to clarify the Agency’s position or to identify the procedures by which that position was established. Only after the issues have been identified by this process should the District Court, if necessary, consider arguments or information which the Agency is unable to make public.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. in order to further implement the proviso of section 403(d)(3) of this title that the Director of Central Intelligence shall be responsible for protecting intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure, the Agency shall be exempted from the provisions of any other law which require the publication or disclosure of the organization, functions, names, official titles, salaries or numbers of personnel employed by the Agency, (emphasis supplied)”
6 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.