Smith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2671
Relies on James Magill, Administrator of the Estate of Frank W. Magill, Jr., Deceased v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation v. Murphy, Inc · Dinnerstein v. United States · 415 F. Supp. 976 - Phillips v. Ward
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question simply stated is, does a psychiatric hospital have a duty to prevent the escape or acquisition of dangerous devices by its suicidal patients, and having breached that duty is the hospital liable for damages its patients cause either to themselves or to others ?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.