Warth v. Department of Justice’s Empirical Analysis
595 F.2d 521 · 1979
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2020
11 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 753 · 5 U.S.C. § 1002 · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Cook v. Willingham · Sdc Development Corporation v. F. David Mathews, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
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.
“Whether a Congressionally generated document has become an agency record ... depends on whether under all the facts of the case, the document has passed from the control of Congress and become property subject to the free disposition of the agency with which the document resides.”
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.