Orr v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
486 F.2d 270 · 1973
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Johnson v. United States (1978), 318 So. 2d 386 - Lincenberg v. Issen (1975)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2674
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · McAllister v. United States · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · United States v. Muniz · In Re Disbarment of Isserman
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) In order to provide safety controls for protection to the life and health of employees and other persons; for prevention of damage to property, materials, supplies, and equipment; and for avoidance of work interruptions in the performance of this contract, the Contractor shall comply with all pertinent provisions of Corps of Engineers Manual, EM 385-1-1, dated 1 June 1977, entitled ‘General Safety Requirements’, as amended, and will also take or cause to be taken such additional measures as the Contracting Officer may determine to be reasonably necessary for the purpose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hat constitutes a legal duty and when such a duty has been breached....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shankle v. U.S.A.
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.