Drazan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.2d 56 · 1985
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 21 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Crawford v. United States (1986), Skwira ex rel. Estate of Skwira v. United States (2003)
56 federal appellate · 21 district · 7 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. § 2401 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675
Relies on United States v. Kubrick · Best Bearings Co. v. United States · Stoleson v. United States · Wollman v. Gross
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When there are two causes of an injury, and only one is the government, the knowledge that is required to set the statute of limitations running is knowledge of the government cause, not just of the other cause.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“begins to run either when the government cause is known or when a reasonably diligent person (in the tort claimant's position) reacting to any suspicious circumstances of which he might have been aware would have discovered the government cause-whichever comes first.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mailing is not presenting; there must be receipt”
2 later decisions 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.