Olson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.2d 510 · 1949
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013
14 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Maryland ex rel. Burkhardt v. United States · McGivern v. Northern Pac. Ry. Co. · 77 F. Supp. 22 - Van Wie v. United States · Walling v. Friend · Iselin v. C. W. Hunter Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““for injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his office or employment, under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred.” 28 U.S. C.A. § 1346(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * In accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crosby v. Meredith
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.