In re United States’s Empirical Analysis
872 F.2d 472 · 1989
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 14 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Kasza v. Browner (1998), In re Sealed Case No. 98-3077 (1998)
20 federal appellate · 14 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 294 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on United States v. Nixon · Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · Will v. United States · Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Holland · Schlagenhauf v. Holder
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]henever possible, sensitive information must be disentangled from nonsensitive information to allow for the release of the latter.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“lawful exercise of its prescribed jurisdiction”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t requires little reflection to understand that the business of foreign intelligence gathering in this age of computer technology is more akin to the construction of a mosaic than it is to the manage- raent of a cloak and dagger affair. Thousands of bits and pieces of seemingly innocuous information can be analyzed and fitted into place to reveal with startling clarity how the unseen whole must operate.”
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.