Logue v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
355 federal appellate · 191 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 985 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably General Building Contractors Assn., Inc. v. Pennsylvania (1982), United States v. Orleans (1976)
355 federal appellate · 191 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · United States v. Muniz · Maryland Levin v. United States · Gowdy 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 985 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not include any contractor with the United States.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to control the detailed physical performance of the contractor.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Pjersonal 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.”
14 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.