Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
547 F.2d 688 · 1976
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 20 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Art Metal-U.S.A., Inc. v. United States (1985), Lurch v. United States (1983)
15 federal appellate · 20 district · 7 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. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 28 U.S.C. § 294
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · United States v. Shaw · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Minnesota 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]urely a litigant cannot circumvent the [FTCA] by the simple expedient of drafting in terms of negligence a complaint that in reality is a claim as to which the United States remains immunized.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“investigative or law enforcement officers”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“investigative or law enforcement officer”
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.