Mayock v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
938 F.2d 1006 · 1991
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Leucadia, Inc. v. Applied Extrusion Technologies, Inc. (1993), Patrick James Campbell v. Unknown Power Superintendent of the Flathead Irrigation and Power Project (1992)
9 federal appellate · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · National Labor Relations Board v. Robbins Tire & Rubber Co. · Kruso v. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. · Open America v. Watergate Special Prosecution Force
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.
“rights under [the Freedom of Information Act] are neither diminished nor enhanced by litigation-generated need for agency documents”
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.