National Parks and Conservation Association v. Thomas S. Kleppe, Secretary, U. S. Department of the Interior’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 58 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Nationwide Building Maintenance, Inc. v. Sampson (1977), Washington Post Company v. United States Department of Health and Human Services (1982)
37 federal appellate · 58 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 Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Vaughn v. Rosen · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration v. Robertson · Schmerler Ford, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) ... impair the Government's ability to obtain necessary information in the future; or (2) ... cause substantial harm to the competitive position of the person from whom the information was obtained.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) actually face[s] competition, and (2) substantial competitive injury would likely result from disclosure.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other than section 552b of this title), provided that such statute (A) requires that the matters be withheld from the public in such a manner as to leave no discretion on the issue, or (B) establishes particular criteria for withholding or refers to particular types of matters to be withheld.” 5 U.S.C. § 552 (b)(3).”
4 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.