Robin Shade Orlando Velez-Shade Jr Danny Velez-Shade v. Housing Authority of the City of New Haven John Yost John Diduca United States of America’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 232 F. Supp. 2d 58 - Gross v. National Broadcasting Co., Inc. (2002), In Re Omnicom Group, Inc. Securities Litigation (2008)
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer · Miree v. County Georgia Phillips · United States v. Muniz
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fundamental error is more egregious than the 'plain' error 23 that can excuse a procedural default in a . . . trial, . . . and is 'so 24 serious and flagrant that it goes to the very integrity of the trial.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A complaint states a cause of action under the FTCA if it presents a claim that is (1) against the United States, (2) for money damages, (3) for injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death (4) caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government (5) while acting within the scope of his office or employment, (6) under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred. With regard to the sixth requirement ... [28 U.S.C.] § 1346(b)’s reference to the ‘law of the place’ means law of the State — the source of substantive liability under the FTCA. Thus, the United States can be made a defendant under the FTCA only if its actions would render it liable under, relevant state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to warrant relief, such a 'fundamental' error must be 14 even more egregious than the type of 'plain' errors that might suffice to excuse a 15 procedural default in a criminal trial.”
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.