United States v. Murdock’s Empirical Analysis
548 F.2d 599 · 1977
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Wayte v. United States (1985), United States v. Armstrong (1996)
39 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. · Renegotiation Board v. Bannercraft Clothing Co. · Duvall v. United States
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“FOIA was not intended as a device to delay ongoing litigation or to enlarge the scope of discovery beyond that already provided by the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“material to the preparation of [the] defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to provide greater public access to records of the Government agencies,”
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.