United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
181 F.2d 577 · 1950
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 1995 · most notably P. W. Siebrand & Hiko Siebrand, Doing Business as Siebrand Bros., Circus and Carnival v. George F. Gossnell and Estella Gossnell, S. J. Carroll v. George F. Gossnell and Estella Gossnell (1956), Williams v. United States (1954)
40 federal appellate · 13 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)
Relies on Johnson v. United States · Ryan v. Farrell · Cain v. Marquez · Oliphant v. Town of Lake Providence
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the appropriate authority adopted from California a code of laws designed to replace the original part-Spanish law, it might be inferred that such codified rules as that of respondeat superior were intended to have the same significance and scope as they had been given by the Supreme Court of the State from which the code was taken.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“California decisions with respect to the tests for determining when the servant of a private employer is acting within the course of his employment supply a convenient starting point for a discussion”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taber v. Maine · Taber v. Maine“[a]fter the Island had been acquired by the United States under the terms of the treaty following the Spanish-American war, the President, on December 23, 1898, issued a proclamation placing the Island under the control of the Navy and directing the Secretary of Navy to take such steps as might be necessary to give it the necessary protection and government. By an executive order of the Naval Government of Guam, on December 28, 1933, codes of law were promulgated for the Island.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.