Close v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
397 F.2d 686 · 1968
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2671
Relies on United States v. Muniz · Anderson v. Alabama · Baker v. Carr · O'Toole v. United States · Goddard v. District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency
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.
“Since the Congress has clearly committed the custody and safekeeping of federal prisoners upon conviction to the Attorney General, then it must be true that in this instance the D.C. jailer was serving as the Attorney General’s jailer; and it must also be true, or at least.it does not appear to the contrary in the record before us, that, as to this federal prisoner, the Attorney General had some degree of power, commensurate with his continuing responsibility, to supervise the D.C. jailer in his handling of this particular prisoner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We note in this regard that, for purposes of the FTCA, Congress has defined ‘Employee of the [federal] government’ as including ‘persons acting on behalf of a federal agency in an official capacity, temporarily or permanently in the service of the United States, whether with or without compensation.’ 28 U.S.C. § 2671 . The cases have, on occasion, regarded D. C. Governmental agencies as ‘federal agencies’ for purposes of the FTCA, depending upon the amenability of such agencies to federal control. We are not persuaded by anything appearing in this record that the Attorney General was, in a matter of this kind, wholly lacking in any capacity to assure the proper care of a prisoner for whose custody he was primarily and permanently responsible.” 397 F.2d at 687 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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