Fernandez v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
673 F.2d 269 · 1982
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Page v. United States (1984), Crawford v. United States (1986)
22 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2401 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675
Relies on United States v. Kubrick · Caton v. United States · Davis v. United States · Brown v. United States · Pittman 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all there was to know about the cause of his injuries, and who (the nurses and doctors who diagnosed and treated his jaundice) were responsible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“had inquired, and if there were merit in the case, presumably they would have learned that there was a possibility that [the child's] diagnosis and treatment came too late [to prevent] the sad after-effects of the jaundice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well established that minority does not toll the limitations period prescribed in the Federal Tort Claims Act.”
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.