Goland v. Central Intelligence Agency’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 339 · 1978
Citation profile
201 federal appellate · 365 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 671 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Military Audit Project v. Casey (1981), Weisberg v. U.S. Department of Justice (1984)
201 federal appellate · 365 district · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 1905 · 26 U.S.C. § 7213 · 28 U.S.C. § 2106 · 40 U.S.C. § 102 · 42 U.S.C. § 1306 (§ 1106 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 44 U.S.C. § 2901 · 44 U.S.C. § 2902 · 44 U.S.C. § 2906
Relies on Steffel v. Thompson · Department of the Air Force v. Rose · Near v. State of Minnesota Olson · Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Golden v. Zwickler
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 671 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“refers to particular types of matters to be withheld”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Exemption 3 differs from other FOIA exemptions in that its applicability depends less on the detailed factual contents of specific documents; the sole issue for decision is the existence of a relevant statute and the inclusion of withheld material within the statute's coverage.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hether 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.”
6 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.