Hatchell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
776 F.2d 244 · 1985
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Allgeier v. United States (1990), Phyllis G. Kyle v. Campbell Soup Company (1994)
24 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2401
Relies on Dyniewicz v. United States · Mann v. United States · Texie G. Carr v. The Veterans Administration, and J. G. Thompson · Claremont Aircraft, Inc. 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“enlarge that consent to be sued which the Government, through Congress, has undertaken so carefully to limit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 87-2226
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.