Lykins v. United States Department of Justice’s Empirical Analysis
725 F.2d 1455 · 1984
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 26 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably King v. United States Department of Justice (1987), City of New Haven v. Freedom of Information Commission (1988)
59 federal appellate · 26 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 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Vaughn v. Rosen · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Kissinger v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · Walker v. City of Birmingham
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t forces the government to analyze carefully any material withheld, it enables the trial court to fulfill its duty of ruling on the applicability of the exemption, and it enables the adversary system to operate by giving the requester as much information as possible, on the basis of which he can present his case to the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“extensive public justification would threaten to reveal the very information for which a FOIA exemption is claimed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums”
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.