Thomas v. Lockheed Aircraft Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
665 F.2d 1330 · 1981
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
May 1986
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Santoni v. United States · Harris v. United States · Barrett v. Zweibon · Dole v. Dow Chemical Co. · Fuhrman v. United States Steel Corp.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an employee, his legal representative, spouse, dependents, next of kin, [or] any other person otherwise entitled to recover damages from the United States . . . because of the [employee's] injury or death.”
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.