Schaefer v. Hills’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
July 1990
most recently cited
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2401 · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675
Relies on Caton v. United States · Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. United States · Melo v. United States · Avril 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For the purpose of Section 2672 of Title 28 [governing the authority of heads of Federal agencies to settle claims against the agency] * * * a claim shall be deemed to have been presented when a Federal agency receives an executed Standard Form 95 or other written notification of an incident, accompanied by a claim for money damages, in a sum certain * * * (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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