Benbow v. Wolf’s Empirical Analysis
217 F.2d 203 · 1954
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably Williams v. United States (1969), Harris v. United States (2005)
13 federal appellate · 5 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2676
Relies on United States v. Yellow Cab Co. · United States v. Gilman · United States v. Lushbough · Gilman 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ x x x mere assertion of a claim by the plaintiff against the United States is insufficient to create jurisdiction over a separate claim against tthe individual defendants where there is no diverse citizenship as between the plaintiff and those individuals.’ ””
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.