Taber v. Maine’s Empirical Analysis
67 F.3d 1029 · 1995
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably Faragher v. City of Boca Raton (1998), Dreier v. United States (1996)
29 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2679 · 48 U.S.C. § 1424 · 5 U.S.C. § 8101 (Attendant Allowance Adjustment Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 8102
Relies on Feres v. United States · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Indian Towing Company v. United States · Greene v. McElroy · United States v. Muniz
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts have uniformly equated the FTCA's `line of duty' language with the phrase `scope of employment,' as that concept is defined by the respondeat superior law of the jurisdiction in which the accident occurred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“our focus on tortfeasor-related discipline in both Bozeman and Sanchez III stemmed primarily from the particular theories of liability that the plaintiffs asserted in those cases”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Feres bars a claim for injuries that 'arise out of or in the course of activity incident to service'”
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.