Bontkowski v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
28 F.3d 36 · 1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2016
5 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. § 2671
Relies on Yagow v. United States · Goldberg Securities, Inc. v. Scarlata · United States v. Bruun · 114 Ill. 2d 538 - Moore v. Strayhorn · Bontkowski 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The facts alleged against Bontkowski at the time of his guilty plea were sufficient for a conviction under the law as it was understood at that time, before it was clarified by the Bruun case. The colloquy between Bontkowski and the district court judge at the time of his guilty plea leaves no doubt that he pled guilty to violating the law as it was in 1984.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Federal Tort Claims Act imposes liability upon the United States where a Private Person would be liable in accordance with the law of the place where the alleged acts or omissions 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.