Cook v. Craig’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably 32 Cal. 3d 440 - American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California, Inc. v. Deukmejian (1982), 143 Cal. App. 3d 762 - San Gabriel Tribune v. Superior Court (1983)
1 federal appellate · 35 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 Hannah v. Larche · Gray v. Sanders · Allee v. Medrano · 67 Cal. 2d 536 - Eye Dog Foundation v. State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind · Mayo M. Goff v. New York
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]ecords of complaints to or investigations conducted by, or records of intelligence information or security procedures of, the office of the Attorney General and the Department of Justice, and any state or local police agency, or any such investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local police agency, or any such investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local agency for correctional, law enforcement, or licensing purposes....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the general policy of the [Public Records Act] favors disclosure. Support for a refusal to disclose information `must be found, if at all, among the specific exceptions to the general policy that are enumerated in the Act.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.