Maynard v. Central Intelligence Agency’s Empirical Analysis
986 F.2d 547 · 1993
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 85 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Douglass v. United Services Automobile Ass'n (1996), Morley v. Central Intelligence Agency (2007)
39 federal appellate · 85 district · 8 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 United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press · Doerr v. Doerr · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Robbins Tire & Rubber Co. · Vaughn v. Rosen
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a presumption of good faith, which cannot be rebutted by purely speculative claims about the existence and discoverability of other documents.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“If an agency fails to establish through reasonably detailed affidavits that its search was reasonable, the FOIA requester may avert summary judgment merely by showing that the agency might have discovered a responsive document had the agency conducted a reasonable search.... However, if an agency demonstrates that it has conducted a reasonably thorough search, the FOIA requester can rebut the agency’s affidavit only by showing that the agency’s search was not made in good faith.... An agency’s affidavit is accorded a presumption of good faith, which cannot be rebutted by purely speculative claims about the existence and discoverability of other documents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[I]t forces the government to analyze carefully any material withheld, it enables the trial court to fulfill its duty of ruling on the applicability of the exemption, and it enables the adversary system to operate by giving the requester as much information as possible, on the basis of which he can present his case to the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.