Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
600 F.2d 1218 · 1979
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Scales v. Jc Bradford and Company (1991), United States v. Jabara (1981)
27 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 904 · 5 U.S.C. § 2105 · 5 U.S.C. § 8101 (Attendant Allowance Adjustment Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 8102 · 5 U.S.C. § 8116 · 5 U.S.C. § 8171
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. · United States v. Hopkins · English v. Cunningham · Aubrey v. United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exclusive and instead of all other liability of the United States or the instrumentality to the employee, his legal representative, spouse, dependents, next of kin, and any other person otherwise entitled to recover damages from the United States or the instrumentality because of the disability or death ... under a Federal tort liability statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ordinarily, an employee of the United States is entitled to compensation for work related death or disability under the Federal Employees Compensation Act [FECA], 5 U.S.C. §§ 8101 et seq.... However, employees of nonappropriated fund instrumentalities of the United States are excluded from coverage under the Federal Employees Compensation Act as well as from certain laws administered within the Civil Service System. 5 U.S.C. § 2105 (e). Instead, employees of nonap-propriated fund instrumentalities are entitled, under 5 U.S.C. § 8171 , to compensation for work related death or disability under the terms of the Longshoremen’s Act ... Moreover, 5 U.S.C. § 8173 provides that coverage under the Longshoreman’s Act is exclusive and in lieu of all other remedies against the United States for covered injuries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.