Thomason v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1998
8 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2679
Relies on Feres v. United States · Brooks v. United States · Silver v. Silver · PepsiCo, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Carr 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(b) The remedy against the United States provided by sections 1346(b) and 2672 of this title for injury or loss of property or personal injury or death, resulting from the operation by any employee of the Government of any motor vehicle while acting within the scope of his office or employment, shall hereafter be exclusive of any other civil action or proceeding by reason of the same subject matter against the employee or his estate whose act or omission gave rise to the claim.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The fact that Thomason was in a ‘present for duty’ status and not on any type of leave or pass, as sworn to in an affidavit by Captain James A. Kerchman, Commander of the Medical Company at Fort Dix, brings plaintiff within the ambit of Feres , thereby negating the applicability of the FTCA.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an independent determination . . . as to whether Sanchez was acting within the scope of his employment.”
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.