Shaw v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
244 F.2d 930 · 1957
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2010
15 federal appellate · 4 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 18 U.S.C. § 284 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 48 U.S.C. § 301
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Gomila v. United States · Blackhawk-Perry Corp. v. Commissioner · United States v. Farina · Reynolds 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we are not bound to reverse in every case where the instruction may have been given.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leavitt v. Arave · Leavitt v. Arave
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.