Ashley v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1987
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 16 U.S.C. § 1 (National Park Police Drug Enforcement Supplemental Authority Act) · 16 U.S.C. § 21 · 16 U.S.C. § 26 · 16 U.S.C. § 457 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · Richards v. United States · Builders Steel Co. v. Commissioner · 128 Ohio St. 626 - J.C. Penny Co. v. Robinson · Loney v. Laramie Auto 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he public interest in maintaining parks like Yellowstone, where the land is preserved in its undisturbed state and wild animals are found in their natural habitats, outweighs any interest plaintiff may have in holding the defendant as an insurer of the safety of visitors in bear country. The defendant made the choice to set aside the park land not for any selfish or personal reason, . . . but for the good of the entire public, including the plaintiff. Ashley, supra at p. 43 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any claim . . based upon the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function or duty on the part of a federal agency or an employee of the Government, whether or not the discretion involved be abused.”
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.