Davis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
670 F.3d 48 · 2012
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Miles v. Apex Marine Corp. · Crane v. Stern · Neshewat v. Hagstrom · Agis v. Howard Johnson Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“FBI agents affirmatively intervened to protect Bulger and Flemmi both by tips to the men and by blocking law enforcement measures that would likely have brought them to justice before the murders of the two women.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no duty to control another person's conduct to prevent that person from causing harm to a third party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“affirmatively empowering known killers to remain at large is unlikely to be what the SJC had in mind”
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.