Brennan v. Fatata’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2004
4 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the defendants are to obtain the benefits of the Federal preemption of section [2679 of Title 28 of the United States Code], they must follow its provisions by turning their suit papers over to the United States Attorney General [U.S.Code, tit. 28, § 2679, subd. (c) ] who will then certify if the defendants were within the scope of Federal employment and the action will be removed to Federal court [U.S.Code, tit. 28, § 2679, subd. (d) ]. It is implicit in the statute that if the defendants do not turn over their suit papers or if the Attorney General does not certify to their being in the scope of Federal employment, the State action continues against the defendants personally.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.