Forsham v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
587 F.2d 1128 · 1978
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Forsham v. Harris (1980), Ryan v. Department of Justice (1980)
18 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 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 National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Department of the Air Force v. Rose · National League of Cities v. Usery · United States v. Orleans · Renegotiation Board v. Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any executive department, military department, Government corporation, Government controlled corporation, or other establishment in the executive branch of the Government . . ., or any independent regulatory agency.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“created or obtained . . . in the course of doing its work.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“within the meaning of the Act when copies of those data have not been obtained by a federal agency subject to the FOIA. Federal participation in the generation of the data by means of a grant from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) does not make the private organization a federal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Forsham v. Harris
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.