Quilico v. Kaplan’s Empirical Analysis
749 F.2d 480 · 1984
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Kelley v. Rossi (1985), Ezekiel v. Michel (1995)
13 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2671 · 38 U.S.C. § 4104 · 38 U.S.C. § 4114 (Veteran Skills to Jobs Act)
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Rose v. Lundy · United States v. Sherwood · Polk County v. Dodson · O'Connor v. Donaldson
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“employee of the government includes officers or employees of any federal agency, members of the military or naval forces of the United States ... and persons acting on behalf of a federal agency in an official capacity, temporary or permanently in the service of the United States, whether with or without compensation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(1) A master is a principal who employs an agent to perform service in his affairs and who controls or has the right to control the physical conduct of the other in the performance of the service. (2) A servant is an agent employed by a master to perform service in his affairs whose physical conduct in the performance of the service is controlled or is subject to the right to control by the master. (3) An independent contractor is a person who contracts with another to do something for him but who is not controlled by the other nor subject to the other's right to control with respect to his physical conduct in the performance of the undertaking. He may or may not be an agent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Jaskolski v. Daniels“Subject to the provisions of chapter 171 of this title [Tort claims procedure], the district courts ... shall have exclusive jurisdiction of civil actions on claims against the United States, for money damages ... for injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his office or employment, under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.