Freeman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
556 F.3d 326 · 2009
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Spotts v. United States (2010), Breakthrough Management Group, Inc. v. Chukchansi Gold Casino & Resort (2010)
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 33 U.S.C. § 702C · 42 U.S.C. § 5148 · 5 U.S.C. § 701
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer · Dalehite v. United States · United States v. Gaubert
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any claim ... based upon the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function or duty on the part of a federal agency or an employee of 'the Government, whether or not the discretion involved be abused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the complaint alone; (2) the complaint supplemented by undisputed facts evidenced in the record; or (3) the complaint supplemented by undisputed facts plus the court's resolution of disputed facts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“invoke the court's jurisdiction by alleging a claim that is facially outside of the discretionary function exception.”
2 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.