Kimbro v. Velten’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.3d 1501 · 1994
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 25 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably Gutierrez De Martinez v. Lamagno (1995), Osborn v. Haley (2007)
40 federal appellate · 25 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447 · 28 U.S.C. § 2679
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Bowen v. Michigan Academy of Family Physicians
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]pon certification by the Attorney General that the defendant employee was acting within the scope of his office or employment at the time of the incident out of which the claim arose, any civil action or proceeding commenced upon such claim in a United States district court shall be deemed an action against the United States under the provisions of this title and all references thereto, and the United States shall be substituted as the party defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“logically precede[ ] the question of remand”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Blackwater Security Consulting, Llc, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Blackwater Lodge and Training Center, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation, in Re Justin L. McQuown Richard P. Nordan, as Ancillary Administrator for the Separate Estates of Stephen S. Helvenston, Mike R. Teague, Jerko Gerald Zovko and Wesley J.K. Batalona, and Estate of Stephen S. Helvenston Estate of Mike R. Teague Estate of Jerko Gerald Zovko Estate of Wesley J.K. Batalona v. Blackwater Security Consulting, Llc, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Blackwater Lodge and Training Center, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation, and Justin L. McQuown an Individual Thomas Powell, Professional Services Council International Peace Operations Association American International Group, Incorporated, Amici Supporting Richard P. Nordan, as Ancillary Administrator for the Separate Estates of Stephen S. Helvenston, Mike R. Teague, Jerko Gerald Zovko and Wesley J.K. Batalona, and Estate of Stephen S. Helvenston Estate of Mike R. Teague Estate of Jerko Gerald Zovko Estate of Wesley J.K. Batalona v. Justin L. McQuown an Individual, and Blackwater Security Consulting, Llc, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Blackwater Lodge and Training Center, Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation Thomas Powell, Professional Services Council International Peace Operations Association American International Group, Incorporated, Amici Supporting · Blackwater Security Consulting Llc Jk Jk v. Llc“it does not matter . . . what the certification actually says — i.e., whether it denies or recharacterizes the plaintiff's allegations of the employee defendant's conduct; its filing simply ensures that a federal court determine whether the employee is entitled to absolute immunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Osborn v. Haley
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.