Murray v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
405 F.2d 1361 · 1968
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 23 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably Ramos v. Browning Ferris Industries of South Jersey, Inc. (1986), McKay v. Rockwell International Corp. (1983)
67 federal appellate · 23 district · 17 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 33 U.S.C. § 905 · 5 U.S.C. § 8101 (Attendant Allowance Adjustment Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 8116
Relies on Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · United States v. Yellow Cab Co. · Harris v. United States · Mashington Gaslight Co v. District of Columbia · Granza 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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A tortfeasor jointly responsible with an employer is not compelled to pay the total common law damages. The common law recovery of the injured employee is thus reduced in consequence of the employee’s compensation act, but the act gave him assurance of compensation even in the absence of fault.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Federal Employees' Compensation Act ... precludes a tortfeasor held liable to a government employee from suing to obtain contribution from the government.”
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.