Romulus v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
160 F.3d 131 · 1998
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2021
5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2672 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675
Relies on Keene Corporation v. United States · Ikelionwu v. United States · Johnson v. United States · 983 F. Supp. 336 - Romulus v. United States
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.
“enough information to permit the agency to conduct an investigation and to estimate the claim’s worth. A claim must be specific enough to serve the purpose of the FTCA to enable the federal government to expedite the fair settlement of tort claims ... A claimant must provide more than conclusory statements which afford the agency involved no reasonable opportunity to investigate.”
2 later decisions 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.