Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 36 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 235 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2011 · most notably Van Dusen v. Barrack (1964), Molzof v. United States (1992)
104 federal appellate · 36 district · 4 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. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2674
Relies on Boston Sand & Gravel Co. v. United States · Guiseppi v. Walling · Pollard v. United States · Porter v. Sorell
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 235 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for actual or compensatory damages, measured by the pecuniary injuries resulting . . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“By definition, punitive damages are based upon the degree of defendant's culpability.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The United States shall be liable ... in the same manner and to the same extent as a private individual under like circumstances, but shall not be liable ... for punitive damages.”
2 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.