Ostera v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 716 · 1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2019
8 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · United States v. Orleans · Payton v. United States · Liuzzo v. United States
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he decision to use a particular person as an informant is inextricably intertwined in the policy decision to use informants for law enforcement purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. United States“acts of subordinates in carrying out the operations of government in accordance with official directions cannot be actionable”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. United States“the decision to use informants is a discretionary function”
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.