McClain v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2674
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · United States v. Muniz · Jennings v. United States · 23 Or. App. 28 - Denton v. LW Vail Co., Inc. · Loney v. McPhillips
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the same manner, and to the same extent as a private individual under like circumstances . . . .”
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.