Schellfeffer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
343 F.2d 936 · 1965
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 1993 · most notably Ganse v. United States (1967), Brookfield Construction Co. v. United States (1981)
6 federal appellate ·
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 Udall v. Tallman · Fox v. Standard Oil Co. · United States v. Zazove · Head v. New Mexico Board of Examiners in Optometry · Nordstrom 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reading a statute to impose liability on the Federal Government, where 'the liability would mount to great sums,’ unless the words (or intent) are plain.” Schellfeffer v. United States, 170 Ct. Cl. 178, 187 , 343 F.2d 936, 942 (1965), citing Pine Hill Coal Co. v. United States, 259 U.S. 191, 196 (1922). See also United States v. Zazove, 334 U.S. 602, 616-17 (1948). As we have already stressed, Congress”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“simply a former federal employee who had resigned from the Government but who had not yet retired--in the sense in which that concept has been used in the federal service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Horner v. Benedetto“be confined to annuitants already on the rolls (i. e., actually receiving an annuity or fully entitled to an immediate annuity) on August 1, 1958. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kenny v. Hampton
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.