Morgan v. United States Department of Justice’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 195 · 1991
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Roth ex rel. Bower v. United States Department of Justice (2011), Perlman v. United States Department of Justice (2002)
8 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 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 15 U.S.C. § 2055 · 18 U.S.C. § 1905 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Alderman v. United States · United States Department of Justice v. Tax Analysts · Rich v. United States · GTE Sylvania, Inc. v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. · Miller v. United States
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the sealing order itself; (2) extrinsic evidence, such as transcripts and papers filed with the sealing court, casting light on the factors that motivated the court to impose the seal; (3) sealing orders of the same court in similar cases that explain the purpose for the imposition of the seals; or (4) the court’s general rules or procedures governing the imposition of seals.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“sealing Order, which was affirmed when the Fourth Circuit declined to unseal the notes, was intended to operate as the functional equivalent of an injunction prohibiting disclosure of the matters under seal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the proper test for determining whether an agency improperly withholds records under seal is whether the seal, like an injunction, prohibits the agency from disclosing the records.”
4 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.