Consumers Union of United States, Inc. v. Heimann’s Empirical Analysis
589 F.2d 531 · 1978
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 15 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Co Petro Marketing Group, Inc. (1982), Knoxville News-Sentinel Company Inc Knoxville Journal Corporation (1983)
16 federal appellate · 15 district · 4 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 Caminetti v. United States · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Department of the Air Force v. Rose · Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Dann v. Johnston
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) to ensure the security of financial institutions by eliminating the risk that disclosure of examination, operation, and condition reports containing frank evaluations of the investigated banks that might undermine public confidence and cause unwarranted runs on banks; and (2) to safeguard the relationship between the banks and their supervising agencies because if details of the bank examinations were made freely available to the public and to banking competitors, banks would cooperate less than fully with federal authorities.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]ecords contained in or related to examination, operating, or condition reports by or on behalf of, or for the use of, the [FDIC] or any agency responsible for the regulation or supervision of financial institutions,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f [the legislature] has intentionally and unambiguously crafted a particularly broad, all-inclusive definition, it is not [a court’s] function. . . to subvert that effect.”
2 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.