Simpson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
652 F.2d 831 · 1981
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 50 Cal. 3d 189 - Hubbard v. Brown (1990), Hammer v. Slater (1994)
34 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674
Relies on Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Richards v. United States · Town of Mashpee v. Mashpee Tribe · Flores v. United States · O'Keefe v. South End Rowing Club
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A landowner] owes no duty of care to keep the premises safe for entry or use by others for any recreational purpose or to give any warning of hazardous conditions, uses of, structures, or activities on such premises to persons entering for such purpose....”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“How that split among the California courts is resolved is not pertinent to the issue pending here, for the Federal Tort Claims Act makes the United States liable for negligence in the same manner and to the same extent as a private individual would be in similar circumstances. 28 U.S.C. § 2674 . Since California Civil Code § 846 doubtless applies to private persons, it must, therefore, also apply in the same way to the United States.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hether the efforts of the United States were so feeble as to rise to the level of willfulness.”
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.