Pratt v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
673 F.2d 408 · 1982
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 142 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 257 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably John Doe v. John Doe (1989), Campbell v. United States Department of Justice (1998)
72 federal appellate · 142 district · 5 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 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno · National Labor Relations Board v. Robbins Tire & Rubber Co. · Vaughn v. Rosen · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba
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 257 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“related to the enforcement of federal laws,”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(7) investigatory records compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such records would (A) interfere with enforcement proceedings... [or] (C) constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“investigatory records compiled for law enforcement purposes”
7 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.