Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
352 F.2d 477 · 1965
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably Williams v. United States (1968), Manning v. M/V "Sea Road" (1969)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Williams v. United States · Southern Railway Co. v. Webb · Williams v. Grier · 105 Ga. App. 321 - Thomas v. Williams · Southern Railway Co. v. Chatman
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... shall have exclusive jurisdiction of civil actions on claims against the United States, ... for personal injury ... by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee ... 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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“willful or wanton, rather than a merely negligent, deviation from the authorized course of employment; and ... importantly, the employee performed the injurious act while on a frolic of his own, and not while engaged in serving his master. Each of these factors dilutes a master’s responsibility for his servant’s acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“varies with the instrumentality dealt with; where it is inherently dangerous, more care is necessary in regard to it than where it is, according to common experience, a thing relatively harmless . . . .”
1 later decision 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.