Weisberg v. U.S. Department of Justice’s Empirical Analysis
745 F.2d 1476 · 1984
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 331 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 528 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably SafeCard Services, Inc. v. Securities & Exchange Commission (1991), Oglesby v. United States Department of the Army (1990)
100 federal appellate · 331 district · 11 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Blum v. Stenson · Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. · Vaughn v. Rosen · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Harris v. McRae
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 528 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is judged by a standard of reasonableness and depends, not surprisingly, upon the facts of each case.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“search reasonably calculated to uncover all relevant documents.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the mere filing of the complaint and the subsequent release of the documents is insufficient to establish causation.”
5 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.