Ramming v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
281 F.3d 158 · 2001
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 438 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Conboy v. State (2009), Skwira ex rel. Estate of Skwira v. United States (2003)
42 federal appellate · 7 district · 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 11 U.S.C. § 108 · 28 U.S.C. § 2401
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Heck v. Humphrey · United States v. Kubrick · Williamson v. Tucker · Cinel v. Connick
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 438 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Lack of subject matter jurisdiction may be found in any one of three instances: (1) the complaint alone; (2) the complaint supplemented by undisputed facts evidenced in the record; or (3) the complaint supplemented by undisputed facts plus the court's resolution of disputed facts.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“appropriate when a defendant attacks the complaint because it fails to state a legally cognizable claim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A tort claim against the United States shall be forever barred unless it is presented in writing to the appropriate Federal agency within two years after such claim accrues or unless action is begun within six months after the date of mailing, by certified or registered mail, of notice of final denial of the claim by the agency to which it was presented.”
2 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.