Common Cause v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Empirical Analysis
674 F.2d 921 · 1982
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 16 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc. (2009), Trombley v. Bellows Falls Union High School District No. 27 (1993)
33 federal appellate · 16 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 31 U.S.C. § 1108 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 552B (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 7106
Relies on Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Department of the Air Force v. Rose · Chrysler Corporation v. Brown · Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven if a portion of a * * * meeting may lawfully be closed because that part of the discussion is protected by a specific exemption, the Commission may not close the entire meeting * * *. Congress declared that meetings should be open to the fullest extent possible. * * * We therefore reject the Commission’s contention that the Sunshine Act does not require an agency to segregate exempt discussions into a closed portion of its meeting. * * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“specifically concern the agency’s issuance of a subpoena, or the agency’s participation in a civil action or proceeding, an action in a foreign court or international tribunal, or an arbitration, or the initiation, conduct, or disposition by the agency of a particular case of formal agency adjudication pursuant to the procedures in section 554 of this title or otherwise involving a determina tion on the record after opportunity for a hearing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Form and Scope of Injunction or Restraining Order. Every order granting an injunction and every restraining order shall set forth the reasons for its issuance and shall be specific in terms. It shall describe in reasonable detail, and not by reference to the complaint or other document, the act or acts sought to be restrained...”
2 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.