Halperin v. Central Intelligence Agency’s Empirical Analysis
629 F.2d 144 · 1980
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 98 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Central Intelligence Agency v. Sims (1985), King v. United States Department of Justice (1987)
62 federal appellate · 98 district · 3 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. § 294 · 28 U.S.C. § 537 · 42 U.S.C. § 2017 · 50 U.S.C. § 403 (§ 102 of the National Security Act of 1947) · 50 U.S.C. § 403G (Servicemembers Civil Relief Act) · 50 U.S.C. § 403J (Servicemembers Civil Relief Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Flast v. Cohen · Laird v. Tatum · Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, Inc. · United States v. Richardson
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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Judges ... lack the expertise necessary to second-guess such agency opinions in the typical national security FOIA case.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`may aid in piecing together bits of other information even when the individual piece is not of obvious importance in itself.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o require an actual showing that particular disclosures of”
7 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.