Doyle v. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 554 · 1983
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Maynard v. Central Intelligence Agency (1993), Wiener v. Federal Bureau of Investigation (1991)
19 federal appellate · 2 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 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Vaughn v. Rosen · Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Abramson · Mead Data Central, Inc. v. United States Department of Air Force · Church of Scientology of California v. United States Department of Army · Stephenson v. Internal Revenue Service
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“detailed enough [to enable] the district court to make a de novo assessment of the government's claim of exemption.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... each agency, upon any request for records which (A) reasonably describes such records and (B) is made in accordance with published rules stating the time, place, fees (if any), and procedures to be followed, shall make the records promptly available to any person. When a request is made, an agency may withhold a document, or portions thereof, only if the document falls within one of nine statutory exemptions to the disclosure requirements contained in section 552(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In certain FOIA cases--usually when national security exemptions are claimed--the government's public description of a document and the reasons for exemption may reveal the very information that the government claims is exempt from disclosure.”
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.