Graci v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
472 F.2d 124 · 1973
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Michigan v. Ohio · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Norman v. McKee · Graci 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The death knell exception applies . when the appellate court, considering the size of the individual plaintiff’s claim, the extent of his financial resources, and the probable expense of prosecuting the lawsuit to completion, determines the individual plaintiff cannot feasibly continue to litigate his claim alone. . . . [Graci v. United States, 472 F.2d 124, 126 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 412 U.S. 928 , 93 S.Ct. 2752 , 37 L.Ed.2d 155 (1973).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An individual claim may be so small that the unfeasibility of litigation by the individual plaintiff is clear without any further showing,”
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.