Blanco v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
775 F.2d 53 · 1985
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Connecticut National Bank v. Fluor Corp. (1987), McMellon v. United States (2004)
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 1406 · 33 U.S.C. § 1321 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 8 U.S.C. § 1432 (§ 321 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Morton v. Mancari · Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. · Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet · Royal Netherlands Steamship Co. v. Strachan Shipping Co.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By the Constitution a treaty is placed on the same footing, and made of like obligation, with an act of legislation. Both are declared by that instrument to be the supreme law of the land, and no superior efficacy is given to either over the other. When the two relate to the same subject, the courts will always give effect to both, if that can be done without violating the language of either; but if the two are inconsistent, the one last in date will control the other....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he term 'public vessel' in the PVA [includes] a vessel under bareboat charter to the United States and used solely in public service.”
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.