Gatx/airlog Company v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
286 F.3d 1168 · 2002
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Whisnant v. United States (2005), Terbush v. United States (2008)
16 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on United States v. Gaubert · Berkovitz v. United States · United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · United States v. Sun-Diamond Growers of California · Kennewick Irrigation District 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny claim ... based upon the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function or duty on the part of a federal agency or an employee of the Government, whether or not the discretion involved be abused.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“judicial 'second guessing' of legislative and administrative decisions grounded in social, economic, and political policy through the medium of an action in tort.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether a challenged action falls within the discretionary function exception requires a particularized analysis of the specific agency action challenged.”
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.