Bartz v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
633 F.2d 571 · 1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Owen v. United States (1988), Cary v. United States (2009)
2 federal appellate ·
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. § 1491
Relies on United States v. Miller · United States ex rel. Tennessee Valley Authority v. Powelson · Kohl v. United States · United States v. Sponenbarger · Speiser v. Randall
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“excessive precipitation was the root cause of the flooding experienced by plaintiffs,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would in all likelihood have happened without the existence of the upstream dam”
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.