McMahon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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380 federal appellate · 81 district · 17 state decisions

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 899 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “construed strictly in favor of the sovereign.”

   14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Georgetown University Hospital v. Sullivan · Bayer v. Commissioner

2. “Since no time is fixed within which the seaman is obliged to present his claim, under petitioner's position he would have it in his power, by delaying its filing, to postpone indefinitely commencement of the running of the statute of limitations and thus to delay indefinitely knowledge by the Government that a claim existed. We cannot construe the Act as giving claimants an option as to when they will choose to start the period of limitation of an action against the United States.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Franconia Associates v. United States · Kinman v. United States

3. ““In view of that state of the record making it uncertain whether the point would have any effect on the outcome and the fact that petitioner has not raised the point, we find it inappropriate to consider whether the statute of limitations is tolled for a maximum of sixty days while a claim is pending and not disallowed either by notice or by operation of the regulations.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hahn v. United States · Kinman v. United States