Marks v. Central Intelligence Agency’s Empirical Analysis
590 F.2d 997 · 1978
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2018
13 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 50 U.S.C. § 403 (§ 102 of the National Security Act of 1947)
Relies on Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Mead Data Central, Inc. v. United States Department of Air Force · Phelps Dodge Corp. v. AFL-CIO Joint Negotiating Committee · Ray v. Turner · Weissman v. Central Intelligence Agency
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n executive order cannot supersede a statute.”
1 later decision 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.