Cox v. United States Department of Justice’s Empirical Analysis
601 F.2d 1 · 1979
Citation profile
108 federal appellate · 51 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Weisberg v. U.S. Department of Justice (1984), Fund for Constitutional Government v. National Archives & Records Service (1981)
108 federal appellate · 51 district · 20 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 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Department of the Air Force v. Rose · Soucie v. David · Jordan v. United States Department of Justice · Gilbert A. Cuneo v. Donald H. Rumsfeld · Nationwide Building Maintenance, Inc. v. Sampson
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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent a court order in (the plaintiff's) favor, (the) plaintiff must show that prosecution of the action could reasonably be regarded as necessary to obtain the information and that the action had a substantive causative effect on the delivery of the information.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in which the public could not reasonably be expected to have a legitimate interest,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable attorney fees and other litigation costs”
3 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.