Kirk v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
270 F.2d 110 · 1959
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 15 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2006 · most notably Logue v. United States (1973), United Air Lines, Inc. v. Wiener (1964)
60 federal appellate · 15 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 3 · 33 U.S.C. § 701B
Relies on Indian Towing Company v. United States · Grand Trunk Ry Co of Canada v. Ives · Alton v. Alton · National Mfg. Co. v. United States · McDonald v. Shell Oil Co.
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.
““ * * * The fact that the United States retained the right to inspect the work under construction to see that the provisions of the contract were carried out and also retained the right to stop work if they were not is not sufficient in itself to make the United States liable for damage resulting from negligence of the contractors in their performance of the contract.” (Citing cases). ( 270 F.2d at 116 ). 11”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We agree with the following statement which appears in the memorandum decision of the trial court: ‘The voluntary assumption of such a program [accident prevention and safety program] for the welfare of all parties concerned should not create liability on the part of the defendant to the employees of contractors where the performance, or failure to perform, in no wise increases the hazard to the employees of the contractor beyond that which would otherwise have been present. . . . ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.”
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.