Jeffries v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
477 F.2d 52 · 1973
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 1999 · most notably Love v. United States (1989), Blessing v. United States (1978)
30 federal appellate · 8 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
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · Scalza v. United States · Corallo v. United States · United States v. Page · Gowdy 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is subject to liability to the other for physical harm resulting from his failure to exercise reasonable care”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Government's reservation of a right of inspection does not, without more, impose upon it a legal duty such as to render it liable for injuries suffered by employees of its independent contractors”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is substantial doubt as to whether the ‘nondelegable duty’ theory is available under the Federal Tort Claims Act.””
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.