Chomic v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
377 F.3d 607 · 2004
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2401 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2679
Relies on Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Feres v. United States · United States v. Kubrick · Lehman v. Nakshian · Gross v. Irtz
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A tort claim against the United States shall be forever barred unless it is presented in writing to the appropriate Federal agency within two years after such claim accrues or unless action is begun within six months after the date of mailing, by certified or registered mail, of notice of final denial of the claim by the agency to which it was presented.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`clearly provides not that death creates a cause of action, but that death does not extinguish an otherwise valid cause of action.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the proper focus is on the underlying wrong which caused the death.”
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.