Powers v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
218 F.2d 828 · 1954
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2006
11 federal appellate ·
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. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Feres v. United States · Mine Safety Appliances Co. v. Forrestal · United States v. State of West Virginia · Almour v. Pace · Duryee v. Erie Railroad
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Consequently, a suit under the Act must present a recog- ■ nizable previously existing justiciable controversy, — a controversy within the jurisdiction of the District Court, irrespective of the Declaratory Judgment Act. * * *” (Emphasis supplied.)”
4 later decisions 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.