523 F. Supp. 372 - Wilkinson v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2010
5 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2401 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675 · 28 U.S.C. § 2679
Relies on United States v. Sherwood · United States v. Kubrick · Houltin v. United States · Ingraham v. Wright · Williams v. United States
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiff’s administrative claim was filed with the Naval Legal Service Office more than two years after the accident occurred. The plaintiff argues, however, that the Government is precluded from asserting this defense because the plaintiff was not aware that Gray was acting within the scope of his employment until the defendant’s attorney filed a Motion to Dismiss in the state court after the two-year limitation period of 28 U.S.C. § 2401 (b) had expired. See 523 F.Supp. at 375 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The test of the liability of the principal for the tortious acts of his agent is not whether the tortious act itself is a transaction within the ordinary course of the business of the principal, or within the scope of the agent’s authority, but whether the service itself in which the tortious act was done was within the ordinary course of such business or within the scope of such authority.”
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.