McCormick v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
680 F.2d 345 · 1982
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably Smith v. United States (1993), Justice v. United States (1993)
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 10 U.S.C. § 4802 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2675
Relies on United States v. Kubrick · American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · Glus v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defeat the purpose of the provision, which is to encourage those with claims against the United States to present their claims properly and diligently,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n cases where ... if a private person or property were involved, a proceeding in admiralty could be maintained ....”
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.