Fletcher v. Veterans Administration’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1985
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 38 U.S.C. § 705
Relies on 87 F. Supp. 308 - New York Technical Institute of Maryland, Inc. v. Limburg
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The alleged tortious acts of government employees set forth in the second count of plaintiff’s bill of complaint do not give rise to a cause of action enforceable against the government since Congress has specifically excepted such torts from the waiver of immunity found in the Federal Tort Claims Act. The intent of Congress with respect to such claims is expressed in exception (h), Section 2680, U.S.C.A.Title 28 # # # “Since the United States of America is expressly excluded from liability in this type of action, this Court is without jurisdiction to entertain such an action, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The provisions of this chapter [Tort Claims Act] and section 1346 (b) of this title shall not apply to— “(h) Any claim arising out of assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, libel, slander, misrepresentation, deceit, or interference with contract rights” (emphasis supplied).”
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.