United States v. Gera’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.2d 117 · 1969
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Co., Chestnut Run & Affiliated Facilities (1974), Adams
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 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. § 2415 (Indian Claims Limitation Act of 1982) · 42 U.S.C. § 2651
Relies on United States v. Summerlin · Scalza v. United States · Board of Com'rs of Jackson County Kan v. United States · Brulotte Et Al. v. Thys Company · United States v. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Co.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]very action for money damages brought by the United States or an officer or agency thereof which is founded upon a tort shall be barred unless the complaint is filed within three years after the right of action first accrues.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ (a) In any case in which the United States is authorized or required by law to furnish hospital, medical, surgical, or dental care, and treatment ... to a person who is injured or suffers a disease, after the effective date of this Act, under circumstances creating a tort liability upon some third person ... to pay damages therefor, the United States shall have a right to recover from said third person the reasonable value of the care and treatment so furnished or to be furnished and shall, as to this right be subrogated to any right or claim that the injured or diseased person . . . has against such third person to the extent of the reasonable value of the care and treatment so furnished or to be furnished.” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. KATZ v. Greig““When the United States becomes entitled to a claim, acting in its governmental capacity and asserts its claim in that right, it cannot be deemed to have abdicated its governmental authority so as to become subject to a state statute putting a time limit upon enforcement.” 310 U.S. at 417 , 60 S.Ct. at 1020 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. KATZ v. Greig
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.