Morrow v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
647 F.2d 1099 · 1981
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably Chacon v. United States (1995), California Canners & Growers Ass'n v. United States (1986)
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 42 U.S.C. § 3796
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · Smykowski v. United States · Urbina v. United States · Urbina v. United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether there has been substantial compliance with statutory and implementing regulation; (2) Whether there has been arbitrary and capricious action on the part of the government officials involved; and (3) whether there was substantial evidence supporting the decision ...”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“In any case in which the Bureau of Justice Assistance (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Bureau”) determines, under regulations issued pursuant to this subchapter, that a public safety officer has died as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty, the Bureau shall pay a benefit of $250,000, adjusted in accordance with subsection (h) of this section---- 4”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * Generally you should consider a traumatic injury a “substantial factor” in an officer’s death when (1) the injury itself would be sufficient to kill the officer, regardless of the officer’s physical condition at the time of death; or (2) the injury contributes to the officer’s death to as great a degree as any other contributing factor such as pre-existing chronic congenital or progressive disease. [Emphasis supplied].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.