American Library Ass'n v. Odom’s Empirical Analysis
818 F.2d 81 · 1987
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2007
7 federal appellate ·
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. § 294 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 50 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 101 of the National Security Act of 1947)
Relies on Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. · Military Audit Project v. Casey · Goldman v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. · Davis Farnum Manufacturing Company v. City of Los Angeles · Etlin v. Horan
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a solid basis on which to conclude that plaintiffs' interests and the Library's . . . [were] congruent,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Wecht · No 06-3098“not been shown to be a willing communicator.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Wecht · No 06-3098
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.