Petrus v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
833 F.2d 581 · 1987
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Martinez v. Bureau of Prisons (2006), Honeycutt v. Long (1988)
11 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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) · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on Landis v. North American Co. · Richard Berndt v. State of Tennessee and Lakeshore Mental Health Institute · Parks v. United States Internal Revenue Service · Brown-Bey v. United States · Scroggins v. Air Cargo, Inc.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial court has broad discretion and inherent power to stay discovery until preliminary questions that may dispose of the case are determined.”
1 later decision 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.