Smith v. Nixon’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.2d 197 · 1986
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Haynesworth v. Miller (1987), Schultea v. Wood (1995)
27 federal appellate · 10 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 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 28 U.S.C. § 42 · 44 U.S.C. § 2103 · 44 U.S.C. § 3314 · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · United States v. Di Re · United States v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · Kissinger v. Halperin
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“nonconclusory allegations of evidence of such intent”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]are allegations of improper purpose, like the bare allegations of malice rejected in Harlow, do not suffice to drag officials into the mire of discovery.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[B]are allegations of improper purpose do not suffice to drag officials into the mire of discovery.”
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.