Husovsky v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
590 F.2d 944 · 1978
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Hall v. Burns (1990), 30 Cal. 3d 358 - Sprecher v. Adamson Companies (1981)
17 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 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. § 2675
Relies on District of Columbia v. Woodbury · 60 Wash. 2d 745 - Albin v. National Bank of Commerce · Carver v. Salt River Valley Water Users' Ass'n · United States v. Cunningham
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the intervening increase in appellee’s life expectancy increased the amount of kidney dialysis and other future medical treatment he would require in the future, the total amount of reduction in earning potential during his life, and the total pain and suffering he would endure. Thus, it surely constitutes ‘an intervening fact, relating to the amount of [his] claim’ against the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`that having assumed such notorious and open public display of control of the tract, the United States had a duty to exercise reasonable care in its supervision thereof.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a duty to use reasonable care to protect passers-by on adjoining public ways.”
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.