Cooper v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
442 F.2d 908 · 1971
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Page v. United States (1984), National Advertising Company v. City of Raleigh, North Carolina, Southern Environmental Law Center, Amicus Curiae (1991)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2401 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675
Relies on Douglas v. Alabama · Universal Builders, Inc. v. Clark · Baker v. F & F Investment · Quinton v. United States · Kossick 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“particular policies of the statute of limitations in question”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is true that the statute of limitations does not always begin to run at the first moment where a wrongful invasion of a protected interest might give rise to a cause of action. In such cases, the specific circumstances of the case may lead the court to suspend operation of the statute and effectively toll its passage by postponing or continuing its inception. See generally Developments in the Law — Statutes of Limitations, 63 Harv.L. Rev. 1177, 1200-1207 (1950).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“timely when filed within limitation period as measured from “last asserted occurrence of that practice”). See also Cooper v. United States, 442 F.2d 908 , 912 (7th Cir.1971) (“[t]he continuing wrongful conduct of the defendant toward the claimant which establishes a status quo of continuing injury may also give rise to a continuing cause of action”
1 later decision 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.