United States v. 40.60 Acres of Land’s Empirical Analysis
483 F.2d 927 · 1973
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2015
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on United States v. Silverton · Opelika Nursing Home, Inc. v. Elliott L. Richardson, Secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare · United States v. Nipissing Mines Co. · Egan v. United States · United States v. 3,317.39 Acres of Land, More or Less, In Jefferson County
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he nature and extent of the property interest to be acquired is discretionary with those authorized officials within the executive branch and may not be increased or decreased by the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the federal system jurisdiction takes precedence over the merits.”
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.