Sharp v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
401 F.3d 440 · 2005
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Blueport Co. v. United States (2008), St. Tammany Parish ex rel. Davis v. Federal Emergency Management Agency (2009)
6 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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on United States v. Gaubert · United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · United States v. Orleans · Paul v. A. Levy & J. Zentner Co. · Ghiglieri v. Sun World National Ass'n
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his office or employment, under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Decisions protected from tort liability by the discretionary function exception to the FTCA include: 1) the proper response to hazards; 2) how to make federal lands safe for visitors; and 3) whether to warn of potential dangers.'”
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.