Engle v. Mecke’s Empirical Analysis
24 F.3d 133 · 1994
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2015
8 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2402 · 28 U.S.C. § 2676
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · United States v. Sherwood · Carlson v. Green · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Alder 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a complete bar to any action by the claimant, by reason of the same subject matter, against the employee ... whose act or omission gave rise to the claim.”
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.