Rockwell International Corp. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
549 U.S. 457 · 2007
Citation profile
271 federal appellate · 108 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 834 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Bowles v. Russell (2007), Tellabs, Inc. v. Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd. (2007)
271 federal appellate · 108 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1500 · 29 U.S.C. § 101 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 104 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 651 (§ 2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970) · 31 U.S.C. § 3729 (False Claims Act)
Relies on Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Carnegie-Mellon University v. Cohill · Arbaugh v. Y & H Corp. · Curtis v. Loether
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 834 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No court shall have jurisdiction over an action under this section based upon the public disclosure of allegations or transactions in a criminal, civil, or administrative hearing, in a congressional, administrative, or Government Accounting Office report, hearing, audit, or investigation, or from the news media, unless the action is brought by the Attorney General or the person bringing the action is an original source of the information.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen a plaintiff files a complaint in federal court and then voluntarily amends the complaint, courts look to the amended complaint to determine jurisdiction.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Qui tam is short for ‘qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur,’ which means 'who pursues this action on our Lord the King's behalf as well as his own.’ ” Rockwell Int'l. Corp. v. United States, 549 U.S. 457 , 463 n. 2, 127 S.Ct. 1397 , 167 L.Ed.2d 190 (2007). The False Claims Act’s qui tam provision allows”
12 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.