Parton v. United States Department of Justice’s Empirical Analysis
727 F.2d 774 · 1984
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2012
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Department of the Air Force v. Rose · Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Vaughn v. Rosen · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Kolender v. Lawson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The federal courts and federal judges are ill-suited to assume the role of super-administrator in FOIA cases. A court’s primary role, therefore, is to review the adequacy of the affidavits and other evidence presented by the Government in support of its position, utilizing an in camera examination of the [material] itself as an aid in determining whether the Government’s affidavits are accurate and made in good faith. If the Government fairly describes the content of the material withheld and adequately states its grounds for nondisclosure, and if those grounds are reasonable and consistent with the applicable law, the district court should uphold the Government’s position. The court is entitled to accept the credibility of the affidavits, so long as it has no reason to question the good faith of the agency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) This section does not apply to matters that are— ****** (7) investigatory records compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such records would * * (C) constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, (D) disclose the identity of a confidential source and, in the case of a record compiled by a criminal law enforcement authority in the course of a criminal investigation, * * * confidential information furnished only by the confidential source[.]”
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.