Oglesby v. United States Department of the Army’s Empirical Analysis
920 F.2d 57 · 1990
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 625 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 869 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Nation Magazine, Washington Bureau v. United States Customs Service (1995), Campbell v. United States Department of Justice (1998)
63 federal appellate · 625 district · 13 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. § 2401 · 44 U.S.C. § 2116 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on McKart v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Vaughn v. Rosen · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · United States Department of Justice v. Tax Analysts
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 869 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably detailed affidavit, setting forth the search terms and the type of search performed, and averring that all files likely to contain responsive materials (if such records exist) were searched.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage“a good faith effort to conduct a search for the requested records, using methods which can be reasonably expected to produce the information requested.”
53 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonably calculated to uncover all relevant documents.”
27 later decisions 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.