Simpson v. Vance’s Empirical Analysis
648 F.2d 10 · 1980
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Abramson (1982), United States Department of State v. Washington Post Co. (1982)
19 federal appellate · 6 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Department of the Air Force v. Rose · Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Vaughn v. Rosen · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Getman v. National Labor Relations Board
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as highly personal or as intimate in nature”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress did not design Exemption 6 to encompass the withholding of information on the basis of the physical security (of persons stationed or residing overseas).”
1 later decision 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.