Dexheimer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 765 · 1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2004
4 federal appellate · 1 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)
Relies on Feres v. United States · Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp. · Henninger v. United States · Uptegrove v. United States · Mills v. Tucker
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the course of activity incident to service.”
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.