Leaf v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
661 F.2d 740 · 1981
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Thomas-Lazear v. Federal Bureau of Investigation (1988), 137 Ill. App. 3d 412 - Lehmann v. Arnold (1985)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 2680
Relies on Bor-Son Building Corp. v. Heller · Redmond v. United States ex rel. Securities & Exchange Commission · Green v. United States · Slagle 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at the heart of plaintiffs' complaint, however deftly they have attempted to avoid using the word”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he record disclose[d] a man who [was] not the run-of-the-mill informant who is used to buy and sell drugs, generally out of fear of arrest or prosecution if he does not cooperate with the government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“By profession he rebuilt helicopters, he had a private pilot's license, and he had contacts with others in the aircraft trade. Presumably, because of this he was sought out by drug smugglers.”
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.