Thompson v. Kennickell’s Empirical Analysis
797 F.2d 1015 · 1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Johnson (1993), Bois v. Marsh (1986)
10 federal appellate · 3 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 26 U.S.C. § 6601 · 26 U.S.C. § 6621 · 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1961 · 28 U.S.C. § 2411 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 28 U.S.C. § 2516
Relies on United States v. Testan · United States v. King · Library of Congress v. Shaw · Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club · CPC International Inc. v. Dimmitt Agri Industries, 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent a clearly manifested congressional decision to waive the traditional 'no-interest rule' in government suits, we cannot award ... interest in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“interest cannot be recovered in a suit against the Government in the absence of an express waiver of sovereign immunity from an award of interest”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for post-judgment interest only during the period that [the government] appealed its adverse judgment to the Supreme Court.”
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.