Brown v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Feres v. United States · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer · Mounsey v. Ellard · Casas Office Machines, Inc. v. Mita Copystar America, Inc. · Klein v. Catalano
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he duty of care derives from the foreseeability of the harm caused to others by a defendant's acts or omissions”
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.