Sheridan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
135 federal appellate · 102 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 542 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Chapman v. United States (1991), Boyle v. United Technologies Corp. (1988)
135 federal appellate · 102 district · 61 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSheridan v. United States (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Cort v. Ash · Indian Towing Company v. United States · Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · United States v. Muniz · United States v. Shearer
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 542 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entirely independent of Carr's employment status.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not merely bar claims for assault or battery; in sweeping language it excludes any claim arising out of assault or battery.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“that the [g]overnment was negligent in the supervision or selection of the employee and that the intentional tort occurred as a result,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.