Hammond v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 8 · 1986
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Zeran v. America Online, Inc. (1997), Konizeski v. Livermore Labs (1987)
42 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 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. § 2679 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 42 U.S.C. § 2212 (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009) · 42 U.S.C. § 247B (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009)
Relies on McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Boddie v. Connecticut · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · Feres v. United States · Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc.
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rights in tort do not vest until there is a final, unreviewable judgment”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Philip H. Eddings, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Scott Philip Eddings, Deceased, on Behalf of Philip H. Eddings, and Virginia Rae Randt, Individually v. Volkswagenwerk, A.G., A/K/A Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, a Foreign Corporation, Patricia Ann Griffin, by and Through Her Next Friend and Natural Father, Larry D. Griffin, and Larry D. Griffin, Individually v. Ford Motor Company, Albert v. Verhine, Jr., a Minor, by A. Brennis Verhine, His Legal Guardian and A. Brennis Verhine, and Glenda L. Verhine, His Natural Parents, Individually v. Volkswagenwerk, A.G., a Foreign Corporation and Volkswagen of America, Inc., a Foreign Corporation, Dana C. Lamb, a Minor, by and Through His Mother and Next Friend, Jeanne F. Donaldson, Jeanne F. Donaldson, Individually v. Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft, a German Corporation, Volkswagen of America, Inc., a New Jersey Corporation · Eddings ex rel. Eddings v. Volkswagenwerk, A.G.“If the United States can abolish the right to a cause of action altogether,] it can also abolish the right to a jury trial that is part of it. When the United States abolishes a cause of action and then sets up a separate administrative remedy against itself, as it has here, the seventh amendment does not require that it must also provide a jury trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'No person has a vested interest in any rule of law entitling him to insist that it shall remain unchanged for his benefit.' This is true ... until a final, unreviewable judgment is obtained....”
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.