United States v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
400 F.2d 558 · 1968
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1991 · most notably United States v. Johnson (1987), Stanley v. Central Intelligence Agency (1981)
47 federal appellate · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 4126
Relies on Feres v. United States · United States v. Muniz · Stern v. Board of Levee Commissioners · O'Leary v. Brown-Pacific-Maxon, Inc. · United States v. Brown
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the status of the deceased or injured person controls”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for injuries to servicemen where the injuries arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to service,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the ordinary Tort Claim case, where a person with civilian status is injured or dies, the claimant has his rights under the Tort Claims Act, regardless of the civilian or military status of the individual tortfeasor. An agent of the government has committed the wrong and the government is held liable. There is no logical distinction between the status of the civilian or the military tortfeasor.”
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.