Bowles v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2679
Relies on Gutierrez De Martinez v. Lamagno · Osborn v. Haley · New York State National Organization for Women v. Pataki · Doe v. Forrest · McHugh v. University of Vermont
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The United States, we hold, must remain the federal defendant in the action unless and until the District Court determines that the employee, in fact , and not simply as alleged by the plaintiff, engaged in conduct beyond the scope of his employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Brown“the district court may strike such certification to the extent it finds that the defendant employee was not in fact acting within the scope of her employment”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Brown
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.