Caban v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
671 F.2d 1230 · 1982
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 468 So. 2d 912 - Trianon Park Condominium v. City of Hialeah (1985), Pooler v. United States (1986)
25 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 8 U.S.C. § 1225 (§ 235 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Dalehite v. United States · Indian Towing Company v. United States · Almeida-Sanchez v. United States · Castor 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he district coui’ts ... shall have exclusive jurisdiction of civil actions on claims against the United States, for money damages ... for injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his office or employment, under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the principles embodied in the separation of powers doctrine by keeping the judiciary from deciding questions consigned to the executive and legislative branches of the government.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The principal difficulty is simply that all federal employees exercise a certain amount of discretion in the discharge of their responsibilities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.