Townsend v. Seurer’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2015
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Feres v. United States · Chappell v. Wallace · United States v. Shearer · Stencel Aero Engineering Corporation 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[R]egardless of whether the suit is brought against the state National Guard and individual Guard personnel or against the United States and individual Guard personnel, the Feres doctrine will bar the action.”
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.