Moore v. Aspin’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
112 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 412 F. Supp. 2d 60 - Voinche v. Federal Bureau of Investigation (2006), Willis v. United States Department of Justice (2008)
112 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. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Oglesby v. United States Department of the Army · Weisberg v. U.S. Department of Justice · Meeropol v. Meese
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“agency proves that it has 'fully discharged its [FOIA] obligations,’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he burden is on the agency to demonstrate that it made a good faith effort to conduct a search using methods which can be reasonably expected to produce the information requested.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the light most favorable to the FOIA requester[,]”
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.