453 F. Supp. 604 - Lien v. Beehner’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably Hohri v. United States (1986), Barrett v. United States (1982)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 2401 · 42 U.S.C. § 233 (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009) · 42 U.S.C. § 254B (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009)
Relies on Ingraham v. Wright · Shoup Voting Machine Corp. v. Datamedia Computer Service, Inc. · Best Bearings Co. v. United States · Kielwien v. United States · Melo 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“strong equitable considerations notwithstanding, the two-year limitation period of 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2401(b) cannot be tolled or waived.”
3 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.