United States v. Demko’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
214 federal appellate · 33 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 456 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Brown v. General Services Administration (1976), Block v. North Dakota Board of University and School Lands North Dakota Board of University and School Lands (1983)
214 federal appellate · 33 district · 34 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
reviewedDemko v. United States (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Feres v. United States · United States v. Muniz · Difronzo v. United States · Johansen v. United States
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 456 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“compensation laws are practically always thought of as substitutes for, not supplements to, common-law tort actions.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“compensation to inmates or their dependents for injuries suffered in any industry or in any work activity in connection with the maintenance or operation of the institution in which the inmates are confined.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“where there is a compensation statute that reasonably and fairly covers a particular group of workers, it presumably is the exclusive remedy to protect that group.”
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.