Armstrong v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2012
4 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 44 U.S.C. § 2201 · 44 U.S.C. § 2203 · 44 U.S.C. § 2901 · 44 U.S.C. § 3101 · 44 U.S.C. § 3301 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Baker v. Carr · United States v. Nixon · William Marbury v. James Madison · Heckler v. Chaney · National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“documentary materials ... created or received by the President, his immediate staff, or a unit or individual in the Executive Office of the President whose function is to advise and assist the President, in the course of conducting activities which relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Armstrong v. Bush
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.