Meyer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
638 F.2d 155 · 1980
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2012
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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)
Relies on Hazelwood School District v. United States · Nicholas v. Davis · Faulstich v. Ladd · Frase v. Henry · United States v. Callahan
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]vidence of the habit of a person or the routine practice of an organization ... is relevant to prove that the conduct of the person or the practice of the organization on a particular occasion was in conformity with the habit or routine practice”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Habit evidence] does not stand in a special light nor is it to be referred to a second-class category which automatically carries little weight. If it is admissible, the weight to be given to it is dependent on the particular circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would require us to substitute our judgment for that of the trial court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Briggs v. Anderson
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.