Brandon v. Eckard’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.2d 683 · 1977
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2006
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 · Nixon v. Administrator of General Services · Soucie v. David · Mayo M. Goff v. New York · Nixon v. Richey
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court shall determine the matter de novo, and may examine the contents of . . . agency records in camera to determine whether such records or any part thereof shall be withheld under any of the exemptions set forth in subsection (b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“FOIA does not discriminate among persons seeking access to materials on grounds of their particular interests in the requested information____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the burden is on the agency to sustain its action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.