Lee v. Thornton’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 63 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 256 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2016 · most notably United States v. Testan (1976), Bowen v. Massachusetts (1988)
65 federal appellate · 63 district · 6 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 United States v. Sherwood · United States v. King · Richardson v. Morris
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 256 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The district courts shall have original jurisdiction, concurrent with the United States Court of Federal Claims, of: (2) Any other civil action or claim against the United States, not exceeding $10,000 in amount, founded either upon the Constitution, or any Act of Congress, or any regulation of an executive department, or upon any express or implied contract with the United States, or for liquidated or unliquidated damages in cases not sounding in tort, except that the district courts shall not have jurisdiction of any civil action or claim against the United States founded upon any express or implied contract with the United States or for liquidated or unliquidated damages in cases not sounding in tort which are subject to sections 7104(b)(1) and 7107(a)(1) of title 41.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Tucker Act empowers district courts to award damages but not to grant injunctive or declaratory relief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he district courts shall have original jurisdiction, concurrent with the Court of Claims, of: ... [a]ny ... civil action or claim against the United States, not exceeding $10,000 in amount, founded ... upon any express or implied contract with the United States.”
2 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.