Houten v. Ralls’s Empirical Analysis
411 F.2d 940 · 1969
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Gutierrez De Martinez v. Lamagno (1995), Meeker v. United States (1970)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Relies on Vantrease v. United States · Noga v. United States · Gilliam 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The federal legislative objective in enacting the Federal Drivers Act while leaving the exclusivity provision of the FECA intact was apparently to protect federal drivers from personal liability by rendering the Government liable in tort, in the case of non-federal employee plaintiffs, and by rendering the Government liable only under the FECA in the case of federal employee plaintiffs."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““is one in which a remedy [under the Tort Claims Act] is not available against the United States, the case shall be remanded to the State court.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on a motion to remand held before a trial on the merits,”
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.