Griggs v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.2d 1 · 1949
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1996 · most notably Feres v. United States (1950), Barrett v. United States (1986)
33 federal appellate · 10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Brooks v. United States · 77 F. Supp. 706 - Jefferson v. United States · Denny v. United States · 74 F. Supp. 209 - Jefferson 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The terms of the statute are clear, and appellant’s action for a money judgment based upon the negligence of army surgeons states a cause for relief under the Act, unless it falls within one of the [then existing] twelve exceptions specifically provided therein; or, unless from the context of the Act it is manifestly plain that despite the literal import of the legislative words, Congress intended to exclude from coverage civil actions on claims arising out of a Government-soldier relationship.” 178 F.2d 2 -3.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“”[a]n action not be instituted upon a claim against the United States for money damages for injury ... or personal injury or death caused by any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his office or employment, unless the claimant shall have first presented the claim to the appropriate federal agency and his claim shall have been finally denied by the agency in writing...””
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.