Terkel v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
599 F.2d 214 · 1979
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Church Of Scientology Of California v. United States Department Of Justice (1980), Miller v. Bell (1981)
27 federal appellate · 3 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)
Relies on Ray v. Turner · Weissman v. Central Intelligence Agency · Nix v. United States · 410 F. Supp. 1297 - Church of Scientology v. United States Department of Justice
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.
“Although the Freedom of Information Act does not contain a comparable exemption [to Privacy Act exemption (k)(5)], we agree with the lower court that the two statutes must be read together, and that the Freedom of Information Act cannot compel the disclosure of information that the Privacy Act clearly contemplates to be exempt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“disclose the identity of a confidential source and, in the case of a record compiled by a criminal law enforcement authority in the course of a criminal investigation, ... confidential information furnished only by the confidential source.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Bell“lawful national security intelligence investigation.”
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.