Hefley v. Textron, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
713 F.2d 1487 · 1983
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 15 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Northrop Corporation v. McDonnell Douglas Corporation (1984), OMI Holdings, Inc. v. Howell (1996)
12 federal appellate · 15 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 32 U.S.C. § 101
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Edelman v. Jordan · United States v. Sherwood · Hanna v. Plumer · Burford v. Sun Oil Co.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At any time after commencement of the action a defending party, as a third-party plaintiff, may cause a summons and complaint to be served upon a person not a party to the action who is or may be liable to the third-party plaintiff for all of part of the plaintiffs claim against the third-party plaintiff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e have found no cases which approve of the use of rule 19 simply to allow greater discovery, and we can discern no policy which such an expansion of the rule would promote”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We know of no American law which ever has permitted a soldier to recover for negligence against either his superior officers or the Government he is serving.”
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.