Brooks v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
337 U.S. 49 · 1949
Citation profile
560 federal appellate · 114 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,080 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Feres v. United States (1950), Dalehite v. United States (1953)
560 federal appellate · 114 district · 17 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Brooks (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 33 U.S.C. § 905 · 38 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on United States v. Standard Oil Co. · Lawson v. Suwanee Fruit & Steamship Co · Dahn v. Davis · Dobson v. United States
Cited together with Feres v. United States · United States v. Brown · Stencel Aero Engineering Corporation v. United States · United States v. Muniz · United States v. Shearer
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 1,080 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had nothing to do with [their] army careers ... except in the sense that all human events depend upon what has already transpired.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]rovisions in other statutes for disability payments to servicemen, and gratuity payments to their survivors, ... indicate no purpose to forbid tort actions under the Tort Claims Act.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that Congress did not have the servicemen in mind in 1946, when this statute was passed.”
6 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.