United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2009
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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
Relies on United States v. Louisiana · Strunk v. United States · Singer v. Sheppard · United States v. Studivant · United States v. Gera
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any case in which the United States is authorized or required by law to furnish hospital, medical, surgical, or dental care and treatment ... to a person who is injured ... under circumstances creating a tort liability upon some third person ... to pay damages therefor, the United States shall have a right to recover from said third person the reasonable value of the care and treatment so furnished or to be furnished and shall, as to this right be subrogated to any right or claim that the injured ... person ... has against such third person to the extent of the reasonable value of the care and treatment so furnished or to be furnished.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In any case in which the United States is authorized or required by law to furnish hospital, medical, surgical, or dental care ... to a person who is injured ... under circumstances creating a tort liability upon some third person ... to pay damages therefore, the United States shall have a right to recover from said third person....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(4) In no event shall any entity providing benefits other than no-fault benefits to an individual as described in section 203 of this Act, have any right of subrogation with respect to said benefits.”
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.