Loeffler v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
271 federal appellate · 212 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,041 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer (1994), Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. (1997)
271 federal appellate · 212 district · 62 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLoeffler v. Tisch (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2679 · 39 U.S.C. § 101 · 39 U.S.C. § 401 · 39 U.S.C. § 409
Relies on Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · United States v. Sherwood · Carnegie v. United States · Brown v. General Services Administration · Library of Congress v. Shaw
Cited together with Library of Congress v. Shaw · Federal Housing Administration, Region No. 4 v. Burr · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Franchise Tax Board of California v. United States Postal Service
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 1,041 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“, that agency is not less amenable to judicial process than a private enterprise under like circumstances would be. Federal Housing Administration v. Burr, 309 U.S. 242 , 245, 60 S.Ct. 488, 84 L.Ed. 724 (1940) (note omitted; bracketed material added) (quoted in Meyer, id.). The Court in Loeffler v. Frank, 486 U.S. 549 , 108 S.Ct. 1965, 100 L.Ed.2d 549 (1988), resolved that”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]y launching the Postal Service into the commercial world, and including a sue-and-be-sued clause in its charter, Congress has cast off the Service's 'cloak of sovereignty' and given it the status of a private commercial enterprise.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a manifestation of Congress' intent to make 'persons whole for injuries suffered through past discrimination.'”
7 later decisions 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.