Benavides v. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Empirical Analysis
976 F.2d 751 · 1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2018
4 federal appellate · 11 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 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Herbert v. National Academy of Sciences · Phillippi v. Central Intelligence Agency · Benavides v. Drug Enforcement Administration
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“permit a Glomari-zation where the information’s status has not been officially confirmed, but to permit analysis under other exemptions like that afforded any other document sought under FOIA, where the status has been so confirmed”). 3 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]his neither confirm nor deny’ response is popularly referred to as a 'Glomar response' after Phillippi v. Central Intelligence Agency, 546 F.2d 1009 (D.C.Cir.1976), which concerned a FOIA request for records of the 'Glomar Explorer.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coleman v. Lappin
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.