Hercules, Inc. v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 1027 · 1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2016
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 1905 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Camp v. Pitts · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Chrysler Corporation v. Brown · Moore v. Ogilvie · Garrett v. United States
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“impair the Government’s ability to obtain necessary information in the future.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not be permitted to raise [the] issue on the [government’s] behalf.”
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.