Stoleson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 1217 · 1983
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Lancaster v. Norfolk and Western Railway Company (1985), Beatrice WILLIAMSON, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. HANDY BUTTON MACHINE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee (1987)
24 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Abernathy v. Superior Hardwoods, Inc. · Stoleson v. United States · 63 Wis. 2d 515 - Howard v. Mt. Sinai Hospital, Inc. · 51 Wis. 2d 281 - Butzow v. Wausau Memorial Hospital
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is not much difficulty in finding a medical expert witness to testify to virtually any theory of medical causation short of fantastic,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t would be strange if stress induced by litigation could be attributed in law to the tort feasor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“); Commonwealth v. Starling, 382 Mass. 423, 416 N.E.2d 929 (1981); Commonwealth v. Giacomazza, 311 Mass. 456, 463, 42 N.E.2d 506 (1942); Vosburg v. Putney, 80 Wis. 523, 50 N.W. 403 (1891); W. Prosser, Handbook of the Law of Torts 261 (4th ed. 1971). Under this”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doty v. Sewall
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.