Federal Labor Relations Authority v. U.S. Department of the Navy’s Empirical Analysis
941 F.2d 49 · 1991
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably United States Department of Defense v. Federal Labor Relations Authority (1994), Maynard v. Central Intelligence Agency (1993)
34 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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
Relies on Department of the Air Force v. Rose · United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · United States v. Larionoff · Martin v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission · United States Department of Justice v. Tax Analysts
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on the citizens' right to be informed 'about what their government is up to.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(b) Conditions of disclosure. No agency shall disclose any record which is contained in a system of records by any means of communication to any person, or to another agency, except pursuant to a written request by, or with the prior written consent of, the individual to whom the record pertains, unless disclosure of the record would be— (2) required under section 552 [the FOIA] of this title; (3) for a routine use as defined in subsection (a)(7) of this section and described under subsection (e)(4)(D) of this section].]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Our decisions indicate that agency 'litigating positions' are not entitled to deference when they are merely appellate counsel's 'post hoc rationalizations' for agency action, advanced for the first time in the reviewing court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.