Doe v. Cheney’s Empirical Analysis
885 F.2d 898 · 1989
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Melton v. City of Oklahoma City (1991), Wilson v. Libby (2008)
17 federal appellate · 11 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 5 U.S.C. § 701 · 5 U.S.C. § 7312 · 5 U.S.C. § 7532 · 50 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 101 of the National Security Act of 1947) · 50 U.S.C. § 403 (§ 102 of the National Security Act of 1947) · 50 U.S.C. § 831 · 50 U.S.C. § 832 · 50 U.S.C. § 833
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Bishop v. Wood · Webster v. Doe · Department of the Navy v. Egan · Doe v. United States Department of Justice
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no one has a 'right' to a security clearance”
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.