Badhwar v. United States Department of the Air Force’s Empirical Analysis
829 F.2d 182 · 1987
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2019
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 294 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on United States v. Weber Aircraft Corp. · Crane v. United States · Jack S. MacHin v. Eugene M. Zuckert, Secretary of the Air Force · Johnson v. Federal Communications Commission
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under the deliberative process privilege incorporated into Exemption 5.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“predecisional material from aircraft accident investigations”
2 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.