Frankel v. Heym’s Empirical Analysis
466 F.2d 1226 · 1972
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 9 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 318 Pa. Super. 90 - Delahanty v. First Pennsylvania Bank, N.A. (1984), Griffin v. United States (1974)
40 federal appellate · 9 district · 17 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
Relies on 321 F. Supp. 1331 - Frankel v. United States · Downie v. United States Lines Co. · Carminati v. Philadelphia Transportation Co. · DiChiacchio v. Rockcraft Stone Products Co.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in administering the [FTCA,] a district court should not make other than lump-sum money judgments unless and until Congress shall authorize a different type of award.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the FTCA contemplates a lump-sum award, and this court lacks the power to enter judgment in this case 'in terms other than a simple award of money damages,' and thus cannot mandate the purchase of an annuity or otherwise structure its award”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . in any effort to translate such catastrophic human loss . . . into money damages . . ., systematic logic is not helpful and precision is not achievable.”
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.