Doe v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
718 F.2d 1039 · 1983
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2018
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Dalehite v. United States · Indian Towing Company v. United States · Inwood Laboratories, Inc. v. Ives Laboratories, Inc.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the only incidents reported at the post office with criminal overtones did not involve actual or threatened injury to invitees.”
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.