McCormick v. Cooley’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2675 · 28 U.S.C. § 2679
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Rosario v. American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines, Inc. · Kubrick v. United States · Morano v. U. S. Naval Hospital · 427 F. Supp. 222 - Daugherty 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We recognize that § 2675(a) prerequisites are jurisdictional requirements to maintaining a suit. However, since the six months of agency inaction has now elapsed, and no ‘substantial progress’ has been made in this case, the jurisdictional defect may be considered cured without the necessity of plaintiffs’ refiling the suit.”
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.