Driscoll v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
525 F.2d 136 · 1975
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Gasho v. United States (1994), Konizeski v. Livermore Labs (1987)
42 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2679 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 5 U.S.C. § 8101 (Attendant Allowance Adjustment Act)
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · Indian Towing Company v. United States · Rayonier Incorporated v. United States a Arnhold · Roberson 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the character and severity of the plaintiff's injury, the existence of alternative remedies, the capacity of a court to evaluate the propriety of the official's action, and the effect of liability on the effective administration of the function in question.”
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.