Heuton v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.3d 357 · 1996
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Osborn v. Haley (2007), Aversa v. United States (1996)
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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
Relies on Gutierrez De Martinez v. Lamagno · Westfall v. Erwin · Kimbro v. Velten · Brown · Melo v. Hafer
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the Attorney General may file a certification under [the Westfall Act] whenever he or she concludes that an employee defendant was acting within the scope of his or her employment at the relevant time or times,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Osborn v. Haley“nothing in the Westfall Act gives the district court the authority to refuse to substitute the United States on the ground that either the government or the employee denies the offensive conduct”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Osborn v. Haley“[w]hether an employee was acting within the scope of his employment is a question of law, not fact, made in accordance with the law of the state where the conduct occurred.”
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.