Schlefer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
702 F.2d 233 · 1983
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 35 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Senate of Puerto Rico ex rel. Judiciary Committee v. United States Department of Justice (1987), Tax Analysts v. Internal Revenue Service (1997)
16 federal appellate · 35 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Mead Data Central, Inc. v. United States Department of Air Force · Coastal States Gas Corporation v. Department of Energy · Renegotiation Board v. Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Intra-agency memoranda from 'subordinate' to 'superior' on an agency ladder are likely to be more 'deliberative' in character than documents emanating from superior to subordinate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the communication from attorney to client is confidential, and (2) the communication is based on confidential information provided by the client.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of the Department. A. Attorney-Client Privilege The Court agrees with the Department of Justice that the Olson Memo and its cover letter are exempted from disclosure under Exemption 5 because both fall within the scope of the attorney-client privilege. The Olson Memo is a classified memorandum purportedly containing legal advice to the Attorney General regarding intelligence activities contemplated by the National Security Agency (”
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.