Lybarger v. Cardwell’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.2d 764 · 1978
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Perry v. Block (1982), McGehee v. Central Intelligence Agency (1983)
12 federal appellate · 10 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · United States v. Larionoff
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)here may very well be circumstances in which prolonged delay in making information available or unacceptably onerous opportunities for viewing disclosed information require judicial intervention,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Documents shall be furnished without charge or at a reduced charge where the agency determines that waiver or reduction of the fee is in the public interest because furnishing the information can be considered as primarily benefiting the general public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“be placed on a mailing list to receive as a matter of routine any updated materials.”
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.