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649 F.3d 762 · 2011

Citation profile

90
cited by 90 later decisions
1
states following
July 2025
most recently cited

20 federal appellate · 42 district · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1089 · 10 U.S.C. § 801 (Military Justice Act of 1968) · 10 U.S.C. § 948A (§ 1802 of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2340A · 18 U.S.C. § 2441 (War Crimes Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1350 (Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991)

Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Estelle v. Gamble

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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “is not an independent source of federal jurisdiction.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “An action shall not be instituted upon a claim against the United States for money damages for injury or loss of property or personal injury or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his employment, unless the claimant shall have first presented the claim to the appropriate Federal agency and his claim shall have been finally denied....”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “it is plain that a constitutional right is not clearly established but far from obvious whether in fact there is such a right.”
    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.