Rushford v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
204 F.2d 831 · 1953
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Tessier v. United States (1959), Montellier v. United States (1963)
21 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Swift v. Tyson · Barrett v. . the Third Avenue R.R. Co. · Milks v. McIver
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t is plain that Congress meant to make the proper state law in all respects the model for the liabilities it consented to accept ; and that the ‘circumstances’ included as much those facts that would release a liability once arisen, as those on which its creation depended.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the release of one of several joint tort-feasors, without reserving any claim against the others, releases all,”
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.