United States ex rel. Barth v. Ridgedale Electric, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
44 F.3d 699 · 1995
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably United States v. Bank of Farmington (1999), Glaser v. Wound Care Consultants, Inc. (2009)
24 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 31 U.S.C. § 3729 (False Claims Act) · 31 U.S.C. § 3730 (False Claims Act)
Relies on United States ex rel. Springfield Terminal Railway Co. v. Quinn · Wang Cc v. Fmc Corporation · United States ex rel. Kreindler & Kreindler v. United Technologies Corp. · United States v. Prudential Insurance Company · Cooper v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Florida, Inc.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person who obtains secondhand information from an individual who has direct knowledge of the alleged fraud does not himself possess direct knowledge and therefore is not an original source under the [FCA].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to qualify as an original source under the FCA. See id. Affirming the decision of the District Court, the Eighth Circuit reasoned that qui tam actions were designed to encourage private individuals cognizant of fraud on the government to bring such information forward at the earliest possible time and that one who was providing information only in response to a government inquiry was not doing so voluntarily within the meaning of the Act. See id. In other words, rewarding an individual for”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“direct and independent knowledge of the information on which the allegations are based”
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.