Dudman Communications Corp. v. Department of Air the Force’s Empirical Analysis
815 F.2d 1565 · 1987
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 69 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Petroleum Information Corporation v. United States Department of the Interior (1992), City of Garland v. Dallas Morning News (2000)
32 federal appellate · 69 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 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Mead Data Central, Inc. v. United States Department of Air Force · Coastal States Gas Corporation v. Department of Energy · Schmerler Ford, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · Jordan v. United States 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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the disclosure of [the] materials would expose an agency's decisionmaking process in such a way as to discourage candid discussion within the agency and thereby undermine the agency's ability to perform its functions.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'disclosure of editorial judgments' made during the agency's deliberative process 'would stifle the creative thinking and candid exchange of ideas necessary to produce good historical work.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[If] agencies [were] forced to operate in a fishbowl, the frank exchange of ideas and opinions would cease and the quality of administrative decisions would consequently suffer.”
4 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.