Ashley v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
413 F.2d 490 · 1969
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Page v. United States (1984), Nial Ruth Cox v. A. M. Stanton, M.D. (1975)
47 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 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. § 2401
Relies on Douglas v. Alabama · Laverick v. United States · Quinton v. United States · Hungerford v. United States · Mann 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nder federal law, a claim for malpractice accrues against the government when the claimant discovers, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have discovered, the acts constituting the alleged malpractice. Hungerford, supra at 102 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“delay filing suit until the time, however long, when he becomes knowledgeable as the precise extent of the damage resulting from the tort.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“) 8 for a government doctor's alleged malpractice in injuring a nerve in the veteran's arm while attempting to take a blood sample. The veteran asserted that although he brought his suit after the two-year FTCA statute of limitations had run, his claim did not accrue until he learned of the permanence of the nerve injury and thus was timely. The court rejected this argument, emphasizing that a plaintiff may not delay his suit”
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.