Alexander v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
787 F.2d 1349 · 1986
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Thomas-Lazear v. Federal Bureau of Investigation (1988), Gowan v. United States Department of the Air Force (1998)
19 federal appellate ·
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. § 2680 · 28 U.S.C. § 534 (National Law) · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on United States v. Neustadt · Tarlton v. Saxbe · Bergman v. United States · Cuesta La Honda Guild 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny claim arising out of assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, libel, slander, misrepresentation, deceit, or interference with contract rights....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“damages from commercial decisions based upon false or inadequate information provided by government,”
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.