Sutton v. Earles’s Empirical Analysis
26 F.3d 903 · 1994
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022 · most notably Yamaha Motor Corp., USA v. Calhoun (1996), Chan v. Society Expeditions, Inc. (1994)
42 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 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 14 U.S.C. § 86 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 46 U.S.C. § 30104 (Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (Jones Act)) · 46 U.S.C. § 30302 (Death on the High Seas Act) · 46 U.S.C. § 30303 (Death on the High Seas Act) ·
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · Berkovitz v. United States · United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Indian Towing Company v. United States · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] decision not to warn of a specific, known hazard for which the acting agency is responsible is not the kind of broader social, economic or political policy decision that the discretionary function exception is intended to protect”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it will suffice if the evidence shows the extent of damages as a matter of just and reasonable inference, although the result may be only approximate”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“excessive or monstrous, clearly not supported by the evidence, or based only on speculation or guesswork.”
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.