Denny v. Carey’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2019
2 federal appellate · 8 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. § 301 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · United States v. Nixon · Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · William Marbury v. James Madison · United States v. Reynolds
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Exemption from the Freedom of Information Act ... does not create independently any evidentiary privilege; the effect of such exclusion, rather, is only to permit the withholding of these categories of information from the public generally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.