Bailey v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
642 F.2d 344 · 1981
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Page v. United States (1984), Bellecourt v. United States (1993)
21 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 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 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on United States v. Kubrick · American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah · Ratchford v. Gay Lib · Gray v. United States · Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party. Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“invitation to ... in effect repeal [ Section 14.2(a) ] by holding that mailing alone is sufficient to meet the requirement that a claim be 'presented'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not send [notice of the claim] by certified or registered mail, a well known and easy way to establish receipt”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An Action shall not be instituted upon a claim against the United States for money damages ... unless the claimant shall have first presented the claim to the appropriate Federal agency and his claim shall have been finally denied by the agency in writing____”
2 later decisions 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.