Donald’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2025
1 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
Relies on Duncan v. Walker · Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. United States Ex Rel. Stevens · Harper v. Virginia Department of Taxation · George Duncan Superintendent Great Meadow Correctional Facility v. Sherman Walker · Rivers v. Roadway Express, Inc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] private party . . . has a legal right to recovery only from a qui tam action brought pursuant to § 3730(b)(1), which is in turn dependent on the private party having a valid cause of action under § 3729(a).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an action brought by a person under subsection (b).”
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.