Donham v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
536 F.2d 765 · 1976
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1999 · most notably Stencel Aero Engineering Corporation v. United States (1977), Stanley v. Central Intelligence Agency (1981)
11 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 5 U.S.C. § 8116
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Feres v. United States · Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp. · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · United States v. Reliable Transfer Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““it would be anomalous to insulate the United States from claims of a serviceman for recovery of tort damages for service-incurred injuries but authorize a third party in the position of [the manufacturer] to force the United States to indirectly pay those damages.” 536 F.2d at 770 .”
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.