Mendez v. Belton’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.2d 15 · 1984
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 13 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Oliver v. Digital Equipment Corp. (1988), John Andrew Cuoco v. Kenneth Moritsugu (2000)
28 federal appellate · 13 district · 3 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 10 U.S.C. § 1089 · 18 U.S.C. § 291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 233 (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009) · 42 U.S.C. § 2458A · 42 U.S.C. § 291
Relies on Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co. · Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · Blum v. Yaretsky · Rendell-Baker v. Kohn · Stepanischen v. Merchants Despatch Transportation Corp.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“damage resulting from personal injury, including death, resulting from the performance of medical, surgical, dental or related functions, including the conduct of clinical studies or investigation, by any commissioned officer or employee of the Public Health Service.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“protects Public Health Service officers or employees from suits that sound in medical malpractice,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The statute does not reach private action, but rather “prohibits interference with federal rights under color of state law.” Where nominally private defendants, such as the hospital and its officers and doctors, are sued under § 1983 and the Fourteenth Amendment, the court must determine whether “the alleged infringement of federal rights [may be] ‘fairly attributable to the State.’ ””
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.