Davis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
642 F.2d 328 · 1981
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Gibson v. United States (1986), Augustine v. United States (1983)
54 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 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. § 2401
Relies on United States v. Kubrick · Urie v. Thompson · Griffin v. United States · Davis v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc. · M. D. Rutledge v. Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company, a Division of American Biltrite, Inc., a Corporation
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on the same footing as any negligence plaintiff.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'plaintiff has discovered, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have discovered both his injury and its cause.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“bars any claim against the United States unless it is presented in writing to the appropriate federal agency 'within two years after such claim accrues.”
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.