Spaulding v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 2008
2 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. § 2680
Relies on Feres v. United States · Dalehite v. United States · Indian Towing Company v. United States · United States v. Neustadt · United States v. Shearer
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile Ohio state courts have not specifically addressed this issue, case law from other jurisdictions has consistently held that an insane or otherwise mentally disordered person is civilly liable for injuries resulting from an assault and battery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it seems extremely unlikely that Congress contemplated that the subsection 2680(h) exception would be avoidable on so amorphous a basis as the assailant's precise mental state at the moment of the commission of the tort.”
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.