Devlin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
352 F.3d 525 · 2003
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1054 · 18 U.S.C. § 4126 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 5 U.S.C. § 8701 (Federal Employees Life Insurance Improvement Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 8705
Relies on Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer · Richards v. United States · United States v. Gaubert · Office of Personnel Management v. Richmond · Segal v. Rochelle
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his office or employ ment, 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The United States shall be liable, respecting the provisions of this title relating to tort claims, in the same manner and to the same extent as a private individual under like circumstances, but shall not be liable for interest prior to judgment or for punitive damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the sole and exclusive mechanism for determining and deciding all claims founded upon FEGLIA.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.