Minier v. Central Intelligence Agency’s Empirical Analysis
88 F.3d 796 · 1996
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Morley v. Central Intelligence Agency (2007), Wilner v. National Security Agency (2009)
26 federal appellate · 8 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 44 U.S.C. § 2107 (Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018) · 50 U.S.C. § 403 (§ 102 of the National Security Act of 1947) · 50 U.S.C. § 403 (§ 103 of the National Security Act of 1947) · 50 U.S.C. § 403G (Servicemembers Civil Relief Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Doerr v. Doerr · Vaughn v. Rosen · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Kissinger v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Abramson
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other than section 552b of this title), provided that such statute (A) requires that the matters be withheld from the public in such a manner as to leave no discretion on the issue, or (B) establishes particular criteria for withholding or refers to particular types of matters to be withheld.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]se of the word 'employed' without qualification indicates that Congress intended the [CIA Act] to apply to both current and former agents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen a FOIA requester has sufficient information to present a full legal argument, there is no need for a Vaughn index.”
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.