Proctor v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
781 F.2d 752 · 1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2009
5 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2680
Relies on United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America v. United States · Proctor 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough Varig involved an alleged negligent failure to inspect, the Supreme Court wrote broadly in concluding that `the discretionary function exception precludes a tort action based on the conduct of the FAA in certificating . . . aircraft for use in commercial aviation.'”
2 later decisions 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.