McGehee v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis
718 F.2d 1137 · 1983
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 30 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably Davis v. United States Department of Justice (1992), Larson v. Department of State (2009)
41 federal appellate · 30 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 17 U.S.C. § 502 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 28 U.S.C. § 294 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · Connick v. Myers · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Dombrowski v. Pfister
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Cjourts are to “accord substantial weight to an agency’s affidavit concerning the details of the classified status of the disputed record” because “the Executive departments responsible for national defense and foreign policy matters have unique insights into what adverse affects [sic] might occur as a result of a particular classified record.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“First, restrictions on the speech of government employees must “protect á substantial government interest unrelated to the suppression of free speech” (quoting Brown, 444 U.S. at 354 , 100 S.Ct. 594 ) ... [and] Second, the restriction must be narrowly drawn to “restrict speech no more than is necessary' to protect the substantial government interest” (quoting Brown, 444 U.S. at 355 , 100 S.Ct. 594 ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reviewing courts should conduct a de novo review of [CIA] classification decision, while giving deference to reasoned and detailed CIA explanations of that classification decision”). . Section 552a(g)(l)(C), in the portion of the Act dealing with civil remedies, tracks in large part the language of § 552a(e)(5), in the portion on agency record-keeping obligations. The latter uses the phrase”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.