Freeman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
509 F.2d 626 · 1975
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Menifee v. Ohio Welding Products, Inc. (1984), Mussivand v. David (1989)
28 federal appellate · 19 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)
Relies on Richards v. United States · Laskey Bros. of West Virginia, Inc. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. · Gordon v. United States · Granza v. United States · 122 Ohio St. 302 - Neff Lumber Co. v. First National Bank
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of Mrs. Thropp's loss. Overwhelming evidence in the record supports the finding that Gregory's negligence in fact caused Mrs. Thropp's loss. 22 Next, we reject Bache's contention that Thropp's forgeries were an efficient intervening cause of the loss sufficient to relieve Bache from liability. Under Ohio law, an intervening cause that will break the chain of causation must be one”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not brought into operation by the original wrongful act, but (it must operate) entirely independent(ly) thereof; it must be such a cause as would have produced the result, without the co-operation of the original wrong.”
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.