Hatahley v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
464 federal appellate · 108 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 825 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Wheeldin v. Wheeler (1963), Laird v. Nelms (1972)
464 federal appellate · 108 district · 25 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. Hatahley (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Donnelly Garment Co. · Duncan v. United States · Chournos 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 825 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'trespasses' which might not be considered strictly negligent.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be made with sufficient particularity so that they may be reviewed.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The provisions of this chapter and section 1346(b) of this title shall not apply to— (a) Any claim based upon an act or omission of an employee of the Government, exercising due care, in the execution of a statute or regulation, whether or not such statute or regulation be valid, or based upon the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function or duty on the part of a federal agency or an employee of the Government, whether or not the discretion involved be abused.”
7 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.