Lame v. United States Department of Justice’s Empirical Analysis
767 F.2d 66 · 1985
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Trans-Orient Marine Corporation v. Star Trading & Marine, Inc., and the Republic of the Sudan (1991), McDonnell v. United States (1993)
24 federal appellate · 1 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 · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Jordan v. United States Department of Justice · Church of Scientology of California v. United States Department of Army · Ingle v. Department of Justice
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the findings are unsupported by substantial evidence, lack adequate evidentiary support in the record, are against the clear weight of the evidence or where the district court has misapprehended the weight of the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This section [the FOIA] does not apply to ****** (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, [or] (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, or by an agency conducting a lawful national security intelligence investigation, confidential information furnished only by the confidential source, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“plenary review of the district court’s decision on the legal issues” where the district court had conducted an in camera review); see also 1 James T. O'Reilly, Federal Information Disclosure § 8.35, at 8-110, 8-111 n. 676 (2d ed. 1995) (”
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.