Rey v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
484 F.2d 45 · 1973
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably Williamson v. United States Department of Agriculture (1987), Jimenez-Nieves v. United States (1982)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Dalehite v. United States · Rodriguez v. New York · United States v. Neustadt · Cook & Nichol, Inc. v. Plimsoll Club
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“crucial element of the chain of causation”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The provisions of this chapter and section 1346(b) of this title shall not apply to— (h) Any claim arising out of assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, libel, slander, misrepresentation, deceit, or interference with contract rights.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Plaintiff’s loss came about when the government agents misrepresented the condition of the cattle, telling him they were diseased when, in fact, they were free from disease. The claim is that this misrepresentation caused plaintiff to sell his cattle at a loss. This stated a cause of action predicated on a misrepresentation. Misrepresentation as used in the exclusionary provision of the statute was meant to include negligent misrepresentation.”
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.