Burge v. Eastburn’s Empirical Analysis
934 F.2d 577 · 1991
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Davis v. United States Department of Justice (1992), Computer Professionals for Responsibility v. United States Secret Service (1996)
12 federal appellate · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Department of the Air Force v. Rose · United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · Lane v. Peterson · Hullum 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Official information that sheds light on an agency’s performance of its statutory duties falls squarely within [the] purpose [of Exemption 7(C) ]. That purpose, however, is not fostered by disclosure of information about private citizens that is accumulated in various governmental files but that reveals little or nothing about an agency’s own conduct.”
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.