United States v. Yellow Cab Co.’s Empirical Analysis
340 U.S. 543 · 1951
Citation profile
524 federal appellate · 159 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,173 later decisions (47 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Dalehite v. United States (1953), Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover (1959)
524 federal appellate · 159 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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
reviewedHowey v. Yellow Cab Co. (United States, Third-Party Appellant). Gutmann v. Yellow Cab Co. (United States, Third-Party Appellant) (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · United States v. Shaw · Brooks v. United States · George's Radio, Inc. v. Capital Transit Co.
Cited together with Feres v. United States · Dalehite v. United States · Indian Towing Company v. United States · United States v. Sherwood · Stencel Aero Engineering Corporation 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 1,173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`when [such] authority is given, it is liberally construed.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he Federal Tort Claims Act waives the Government's immunity from suit in sweeping language.”
10 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.