Kosak v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
679 F.2d 306 · 1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2007
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 545 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Dalehite v. United States · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all claims arising out of detention of goods by customs officers and does not purport to distinguish among types of harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny claim arising in respect of . . . the detention of any goods or merchandise by any officer of customs,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statutory exception is directed to the fact of detention itself, and that alone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.