Katusha Nurse v. United States of America Unknown Employees of the Department of the Treasury US Customs Service’s Empirical Analysis
226 F.3d 996 · 2000
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 12 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Neighbors of Cuddy Mountain v. Alexander (2002), Whittlestone, Inc. v. Handi-Craft Co. (2010)
36 federal appellate · 12 district · 5 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
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · United States v. Gaubert · Berkovitz v. United States · United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Constitution can limit the discretion of federal officials such that the FTCA's discretionary function exception will not apply.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`need not actually be grounded in policy considerations' so long as it is, `by its nature, susceptible to a policy analysis.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[G]overnmental conduct cannot be discretionary if it violates a legal mandate.”
3 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.