Skipper v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.3d 349 · 1993
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2021 · most notably Great Plains Trust Company v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co (2002), Young v. Repine (2008)
5 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1111 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2674
Relies on Richards v. United States · El Chico Corp. v. Poole · Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance v. Greystone III Joint Venture · Sanchez v. Schindler · Burns v. Thomas
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Texas law, negligence consists of four essential elements: (1) a legal duty owed to the plaintiff by the defendant; (2) a breach of that duty; (3) an actual injury to the plaintiff; and (4) a showing that the breach was the proximate cause of the injury.”
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.