Werner v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
188 F.2d 266 · 1951
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Geyen v. Marsh (1985), Telink, Inc. v. United States (1994)
30 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. § 2401 · 41 U.S.C. § 151
Relies on Collett Kitpatrick v. Texas and Pacific Railway Co · Hamilton v. Kentucky Distilleries & Warehouse Co. · Paramount Pictures, Inc. v. Rodney, U.S. District Judge (Two Cases). Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. Rodney, U.S. District Judge (Two Cases) · Werner 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(e)very civil action commenced against the United States shall be barred unless a complaint is filed within six years after the right of action first accrues.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Section 2401(a) appeared for the first time in the 1948 edition of the Judicial Code. Title 28 is more than a mere codification. It is also a revision. Ex parte Collett, 337 U.S. 55, 56-72 , 69 S.Ct. 944, 959 , 93 L.Ed. 1207 . See also note 5 cited to the text in Paramount Pictures v. Rodney, 3 Cir., 186 F.2d 111 . The statute was intended to apply to ‘Every civil action’ brought in a United States district court; that is to say, to every action brought in a United States district court, save a criminal or an admiralty proceeding. Section 2401(a) not only served to consolidate the provisions of Section 41(20), the Tucker Act and Section 942 of Title 28 U.S.C., 1940 Ed., it also created a general statute of limitations insofar as suits against the United States are concerned. The provisions of Section 2401(a) apply to a suit for reformation, originally an action in equity, precisely as they would to a suit for damages, an action at law.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There has been no ‘ * * * termination of the unlimited national emergency * * * ’ declared by President Roosevelt on May 27, 1941 by Proclamation 2487.””
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.