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← 596 U.S. 482 - Egbert v. Boule

Egbert v. Boule’s Empirical Analysis

2022

Citation profile

60
cited by 60 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
June 2026
most recently cited

2 district ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2675 · 28 U.S.C. § 2679 · 6 U.S.C. § 211 (Border Jobs for Veterans Act of 2015) · 8 U.S.C. § 1103 (§ 103 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1357 (§ 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer · Davis v. Passman

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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[w]hile our cases describe two steps, those steps often resolve to a single question: whether there is any reason to think that Congress might be better equipped to create a damages [claim].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “'special factors' indicating that the Judiciary is at least arguably less equipped than Congress to 'weigh the costs and benefits of allowing a damages action to proceed,'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “ha[s] come 'to appreciate more fully the tension between' judicially created causes of action and 'the Constitution's separation of legislative and judicial power,'”
    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.