Lance v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
70 F.3d 1093 · 1995
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2021
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 38 U.S.C. § 513 · 5 U.S.C. § 8101 (Attendant Allowance Adjustment Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 8116
Relies on Lockheed Aircraft Corp. v. United States · Woods v. United States · McCall 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arising out of an injury is liability `because of the injury.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“took away [employees'] right to sue the government in tort for medical malpractice arising out of the injury, as well as for the injury itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'The United States is the only proper defendant in an FTCA action.'”
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.