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← 646 F. Supp. 2d 66 - Covington v. McLeod

646 F. Supp. 2d 66 - Covington v. McLeod’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
September 2018
most recently cited

2 district ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · National Archives & Records Administration v. Favish · United States Department of State v. Washington Post Co.

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “segregation is not required where the 'exempt and nonexempt information are inextricably intertwined, such that the excision of exempt information would impose significant costs on the agency and produce an edited document with little informational value.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “While the segregability requirement applies to all documents and all exemptions in the FOIA,”
    3 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.