Rev. Dr. Frank D. Lovell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Anderson v. United States Department of Health & Human Services (1993), 587 F. Supp. 1029 - Simon v. United States (1984)
1 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Gilbert A. Cuneo v. Donald H. Rumsfeld · Nationwide Building Maintenance, Inc. v. Sampson · Cox v. United States Department of Justice · Chamberlain v. Kurtz
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he mere fact that the information sought was not released until after the suit was instituted without more is insufficient to establish that [a plaintiff] “substantially prevailed” in ... his suits. Absent a court order in his favor, [a] 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) The benefit to the public deriving from the case; (2) the commercial benefit to the complainant; (3) the nature of the complainant’s interest in the records sought; (4) whether the government’s withholding of the records sought had a reasonable basis in law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Court may assess against the United States reasonable attorney fees and other litigation costs reasonably incurred in any case under this section in which the complainant has substantially prevailed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.