Davy v. Central Intelligence Agency’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.3d 1155 · 2008
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 52 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Brayton v. Office of United States Trade Representative (2011), 960 F. Supp. 2d 101 - National Security Counselors v. Central Intelligence Agency (2013)
6 federal appellate · 52 district · 5 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Buckhannon Board and Care Home Incs v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources · National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Kay v. Ehrler · Campbell v. United States Department of Justice
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“recalcitrant in its opposition to a valid claim or otherwise engaged in obdurate behavior,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'(1) the public benefit derived from the case; (2) the commercial benefit to the plaintiff; (3) the nature of the plaintiff's interest in the records; and (4) the reasonableness of the agency's withholding' of the requested documents.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“both the effect of the litigation for which fees are requested and the potential public value of the information sought.”
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.