Nixon v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
670 F.2d 346 · 1982
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 19 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably In re Sealed Case (1997), Burkhart v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (1997)
14 federal appellate · 19 district · 1 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
Relies on Katz v. United States · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Buckley v. Valeo · United States v. Nixon · Nixon v. Administrator of General Services
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Archivist shall, within ninety days after the date of enactment of this title, submit to each House of the Congress a report proposing and explaining regulations that would provide public access to the tape recordings and other materials referred to in section 101. Such regulations shall take into account the following factors: (1) the need to provide the public with the full truth, at the earliest reasonable date, of the abuses of governmental power popularly identified under the generic term "Watergate”; (2) the need to make such recordings and materials available for use in judicial proceedings; (3) the need to prevent general access, except in accordance with appropriate procedures established for use in judicial proceedings to information relating to the Nation’s security; (4) the need to protect every individual’s right to a fair and impartial trial; (5) the need to protect any party’s opportunity to assert any legally or constitutionally based right or privilege which would prevent or otherwise limit access to such recordings and materials; (6) the need to provide public access to those materials which have general historical significance, and which are not likely to be related to the need described in paragraph (1); and (7) the need to give to Richard M. Nixon, or his heirs, for his sole custody and use, tape recordings and other materials which are not likely to be related to the need described in paragraph (1) and are not otherwise of general historical signific”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e think that those who see in disclosure a threat to the privilege must be given a meaningful opportunity to contest disclosure on that basis. The regulations give Mr. Nixon such an opportunity. He can raise a challenge by sending a letter to the Administrator [archivist ] explaining his position; only if his claim is rejected administratively need he present his claim in court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the regulations charge the archivists to give priority to separating and returning to Mr. Nixon 'private and personal materials.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kutler v. Carlin
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.