Painting & Drywall Work Preservation Fund, Inc. v. Department of Housing & Urban Development’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 1300 · 1991
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 11 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Davis v. United States Department of Justice (1992), Federal Deposit Insurance v. Bender (1997)
27 federal appellate · 11 district · 7 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. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · Sisson v. Ruby · National Association of Retired Federal Employees v. Horner · Sisson v. Ruby · Hopkins v. United States Department of Housing & Urban Development
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the names of current workers might provide leads for an investigative reporter seeking to ferret out what”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“same information would have to be provided, for example, to creditors, salesmen, and union organizers.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he specific public interest on which Reporters Committee requires us to focus is “the citizen’s right to be informed about what their government is up to.” [citations omitted]. As information that might reveal the failure of contractors to comply with relevant laws does not in itself cast light on what HUD is up to, we can find no obvious public interest in its disclosure that is relevant to this analysis.”
3 later decisions 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.