Shankle v. U.S.A.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2011
5 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2675 · 36 U.S.C. § 40302 · 49 U.S.C. § 1304
Relies on Indian Towing Company v. United States · City of New York v. Federal Communications Commission · Massachusetts v. United States · United States Department of Transportation v. Paralyzed Veterans of America · Otis Engineering Corp. v. Clark
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in any but the most indirect and attenuated sense,”
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.