Baum v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]here the Government is not in control of the incident which created the risk . . ., and where the risk is not a latent one created prior to the Government’s loss of control . nor an inherently dangerous one wherein the shipowner requires the work to be done in a manner inherently dangerous to human safety . then it would be “manifestly unfair” to impose on the Government a duty to provide safety measures for employees of the contractor. 427 F.2d at 219 [citations omitted]. •”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fitzgerald v. Compania Naviera La Molinera

2. ““The fact that the United States retained the right to inspect the work under construction to see that the provisions of the contract were carried out and also retained the right to stop work if they were not is not sufficient in itself to make the United States liable for damages resulting from negligence of the contractors in their performance of the contract.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McGarry v. United States