Chapman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.2d 641 · 1976
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 14 U.S.C. § 86 · 28 U.S.C. § 2671
Relies on Indian Towing Company v. United States · Economy Light & Power Co. v. United States · The Montello · Adams v. Montana Power Co. · Cox v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The United States emphasizes that it did not own, construct, maintain or in any way operate the dam involved here; nor did it ever undertake ‘a duty to mark the dam’. It begs the question posed here, i. e., did it owe the duty to mark the dam?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.