Simpson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
322 F.2d 688 · 1963
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 1990 · most notably Felder v. United States (1976), Postow v. Oba Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (1980)
23 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Sanders v. Leech · United States v. Brooks · Texas Consolidated Transportation Co. v. Eubanks · Knecht v. United States · Union Transports, Inc. v. Braun
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here there are firm guidelines establishing the basic elements of the award and it can be computed with some degree of certainty as easily by the appellate court as by the trial judge, it would be mere wasted motion to remand the cause for new findings”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every father and husband has for his wife and children a pecuniary value beyond the amount of his earnings by his labor or vocation.”
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.