Sladek v. Bensinger’s Empirical Analysis
605 F.2d 899 · 1979
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011
11 federal appellate ·
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 Department of the Air Force v. Rose · Soucie v. David · Jordan v. United States Department of Justice · Vaughn v. Rosen · Cox 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no need for us to choose between the Second Circuit's and the D.C. Circuit's interpretation of Exemption 2 when disclosure would risk circumvention of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the primary focus of the House Report was on exemption of disclosures that might enable the regulated to circumvent agency regulation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“individuals embarked upon clandestine and illicit operations”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.