Morici Corporation v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
681 F.2d 645 · 1982
Citation profile
43
cited by 43 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
May 1999
most recently cited
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Alton v. Alton · United States v. Mississippi · National Mfg. Co. v. United States · Chaney v. Oklahoma · Clark 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'wholly unrelated to any Act of Congress authorizing expenditures of federal funds for flood control, or any act undertaken pursuant to any such authorization.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o liability of any kind shall attach to or rest upon the United States for any damage from or by floods or flood waters at any place.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The difficulties and uncertainties of proof inherent in identifying the particular purpose of an employee’s conduct at any given time in connection with a large multipurpose project further support our position that immunity under 702c should be determined by the overall purposes intended by Congress for the project, not the particular intent of a government employee at a specific time.”
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.