Pierce v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
650 F.2d 202 · 1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 33 U.S.C. § 702C
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Alton v. Alton · United States v. Mississippi · National Mfg. Co. v. United States · Peterson 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“safeguard(ing) the United States against liability for damages resulting from floods whenever the United States by an act of Congress was engaged in the minimization of such damage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o liability of any kind shall attach to or rest upon the United States for any damage from or by floods or flood waters at any place”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“wholly unrelated to any act of Congress authorizing expenditure of federal funds for flood control.”
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.