Johnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
779 F.2d 1492 · 1986
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Feres v. United States · Chappell v. Wallace · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · United States v. Muniz · United States v. Brown
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his office or employment, under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Government is not liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act [FTCA] for injuries to servicemen where the injuries arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to the service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Feres doctrine cannot be reduced to a few bright-line rules, each case must be examined in light of the statute as it has been construed in Feres and subsequent cases.”
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.