Wardsworth v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 503 · 1983
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2021
10 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 2401 · 28 U.S.C. § 2672 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675
Relies on Adams v. United States · Caton v. United States · Molinar v. United States · Adams v. United States · Avril 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action shall not be instituted upon a claim against the United States for money damages ... for injury ... unless the claimant shall have first presented the claim to the appropriate Federal agency____”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A claim may be amended, but, significantly, the right to amend arises only as to a claim presented in compliance with [applicable requirements.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a lawsuit may be brought under the FTCA only after presenting the claim to the appropriate federal agency and receiving a denial of the claim”
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.