Allen v. Central Intelligence Agency’s Empirical Analysis
636 F.2d 1287 · 1980
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 36 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably King v. United States Department of Justice (1987), Defenders of Wildlife v. United States Border Patrol (2009)
48 federal appellate · 36 district · 10 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 50 U.S.C. § 403 (§ 102 of the National Security Act of 1947) · 50 U.S.C. § 403G (Servicemembers Civil Relief Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Department of the Air Force v. Rose · Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Harris v. McRae · Mead Data Central, Inc. v. United States Department of Air Force · Goland v. Central Intelligence Agency
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n camera review may be particularly appropriate when either the agency affidavits are insufficiently detailed to permit meaningful review of exemption claims or there is evidence of bad faith on the part of the agency. Another crude, albeit important, factor to be considered is the number of the withheld documents. Finally, when the dispute turns on the contents of the withheld documents, and not the parties’ interpretations of those documents, in camera review may be more appropriate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(b) This section does not apply to matters that are— ****** (3) specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other than section 552b of this title), provided that such statute (A) requires that the matters be withheld from the public in such a manner as to leave no discretion on the issue, or (B) establishes particular criteria for withholding or refers to particular types of matters to be withheldf.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The contested documents, are 'few in number and of short length,' meaning that instead of being burdensome or costly, in camera review would be an efficient means of resolving the issues at stake.”
2 later decisions 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.