Abilt v. Central Intelligence Agency’s Empirical Analysis
848 F.3d 305 · 2017
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2023
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 29 U.S.C. § 791 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · United States v. Nixon · Bourjaily 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, "the court must ascertain that the procedural requirements for invoking the state secrets privilege have been satisfied." Second, "the court must decide whether the information sought to be protected qualifies as privileged under the state secrets doctrine." Third, if the "information is determined to be privileged, the ultimate question to be resolved is how the matter should proceed in light of the successful privilege claim."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“from all the circumstances of the case, [whether] there is a reasonable danger that compulsion of the evidence will expose ... matters which, in the interest of national security, should not be divulged.' " Reynolds , 345 U.S. at 10 , 73 S.Ct. 528 . The government bears the burden of satisfying "the reviewing court that the Reynolds reasonable-danger standard is met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is little doubt that there is a reasonable danger that if information ... regarding ... the sources and methods used by the CIA [and] the targets of CIA intelligence collection and operations ... were revealed, that disclosure would threaten the national security of the United States”
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.