Durden v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
736 F.3d 296 · 2013
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from West Virginia Southern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Sheridan v. United States · Carefirst of Maryland, Inc. v. Carefirst Pregnancy Centers, Inc. · Kerns v. United States · Rivanna Trawlers Unlimited v. Thompson Trawlers, Inc. · Stein v. Asheville City Board of Education
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In North Carolina, 'a landlord has a duty to exercise reasonable care to protect his tenants from third-party criminal acts that occur on the premises if such acts are foreseeable.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. United States“nothing in the record to indicate that the Army should have known that [the tortfeasor] was a threat to [plaintiff's] safety based solely on the [burglary and non-sexual assault].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. United States“[i]t might be a different case if the Army knew that it was one of its own soldiers, and [the tortfeasor] specifically, that committed the 2008 and 2009 sexual assaults ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. United States
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.