Osborn v. Haley’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
135 federal appellate · 130 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 509 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Carlsbad Technology, Inc. v. HIF Bio, Inc. (2009), Hui v. Castaneda (2010)
135 federal appellate · 130 district · 18 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedOsborn v. Haley (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1441A · 15 U.S.C. § 77P (§ 16 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 25 U.S.C. § 487 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 28 U.S.C. § 1442 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Carnegie-Mellon University v. Cohill
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 509 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon certification by the Attorney General that the defendant employee was acting within the scope of his office or employment at the time of the incident out of which the claim arose, any civil action or proceeding commenced upon such claim in a United States district court shall be deemed an action against the United States under the provisions of this title and all references thereto, and the United States shall be substituted as the party defendant.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accords federal employees absolute immunity from common-law tort claims arising out of acts they undertake in the course of their official duties.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was acting within the scope of his office or employment at the time of the incident out of which the claim arose.”
11 later decisions 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.