Hayes v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
585 F.2d 701 · 1978
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2001 · most notably United States v. James (1986), McCarthy v. United States (1988)
22 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 33 U.S.C. § 702C
Relies on Graci v. United States · 330 F. Supp. 1346 - Ponderendolph v. Derry Township
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the plaintiff could prove damage to his farm as a result of the dam's operation as a recreational facility without relation to the operation of the dam as a flood control project, he would avoid the absolute bar of § 702c.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)here is no immunity for flooding caused by a federal project unrelated to flood control.”
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.