United States v. Neustadt’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
395 federal appellate · 221 district · 112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,263 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Shearer (1985), 69 Cal. 2d 782 - Johnson v. State of California (1968)
395 federal appellate · 221 district · 112 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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. Neustadt (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1701 (Affordable Housing for Seniors and Families Act) · 12 U.S.C. § 1709 · 12 U.S.C. § 1715Q · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2402 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Indian Towing Company v. United States · Ultramares Corp. v. Touche · Glanzer v. . Shepard · United States v. Spelar
Cited together with Block v. Neal · Dalehite v. United States · Indian Towing Company v. United States · Rayonier Incorporated v. United States a Arnhold · United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense
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 1,263 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“duty to use due care in obtaining and communicating information upon which that party may reasonably be expected to rely in the conduct of his economic affairs, is only to state the traditional and commonly understood legal definition of the tort of 'negligent misrepresentation,' ... which there is every reason to believe Congress had in mind when it placed the word 'misrepresentation' before the word 'deceit' in 2680(h)”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“very largely to the invasion of interests of a financial or commercial character, in the course of business dealings.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any claim arising out of assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, libel, slander, misrepresentation, deceit or interference with contract rights.”
13 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.