Miller v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis
730 F.2d 773 · 1984
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 77 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Central Intelligence Agency v. Sims (1985), King v. United States Department of Justice (1987)
28 federal appellate · 77 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 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 50 U.S.C. § 403 (§ 102 of the National Security Act of 1947)
Relies on Harris v. McRae · Military Audit Project v. Casey · Goland v. Central Intelligence Agency · Lesar v. United States Department of Justice · Ray v. Turner
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary judgment is warranted on the basis of agency affidavits when the affidavits describe the justifications for nondisclosure with reasonably specific detail, demonstrate that the information withheld logically falls within the claimed exemption, and are not controverted by either contrary evidence in the record nor by evidence of agency bad faith.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in conducting de novo review in the context of national security concerns, courts 'must accord substantial weight to an agency's affidavit concerning the details of the classified status of the disputed record.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“either by itself or in the context of other information, reasonably could be expected to cause damage to the national security.”
2 later decisions 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.