Military Audit Project v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis
656 F.2d 724 · 1981
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 670 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 872 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Campbell v. United States Department of Justice (1998), King v. United States Department of Justice (1987)
98 federal appellate · 670 district · 2 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 · 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 Vaughn v. Rosen · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Harris v. McRae · Lustig v. United States
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 872 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the documents and the justifications for nondisclosure with reasonably specific detail, demonstrate that the information withheld logically falls within the claimed exemption, and are not controverted by either contrary evidence in the record nor by evidence of agency bad faith.”
73 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“matters that are (1)(A) specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and (B) are in fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the burden is on the agency to sustain its action.”
5 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.