Kline v. Department of Health & Human Services’s Empirical Analysis
927 F.2d 522 · 1991
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Clough v. Rush (1992), Kenworthy v. Conoco, Inc. (1992)
20 federal appellate · 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 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis · United States v. Indrelunas · United States v. Kimball · Thomas v. United States Department of Energy · Amoco Oil Co. v. Jim Heilig Oil & Gas, Inc., Et Al.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have held that a district court order which contains no discussion' of the reasoning behind the court’s decision and cannot be considered to be an opinion or memorandum, is clearly intended to be the final directive of the court disposing of all the claims, and is properly entered on the docket, meets the requirements of Rule 58.”
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.