Hamre v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
799 F.2d 455 · 1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2025
9 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2671
Relies on United States v. Neustadt · Block v. Neal · Cracraft v. City of St. Louis Park · United Scottish Insurance v. United States · Gelley v. Astra Pharmaceutical Products 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any injury sustained by the appellants was proximately caused by their reliance upon representations made by the government appraiser. Any negligent inspection of the premises could not have caused their injuries, for the defects, if any, were present before the inspection was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The United States shall be liable, respecting the provisions of this title relating to tort claims, in the same manner and to the same extent as a private individual under like circumstances * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'alleged no injury that [they] would have suffered independently of [their] reliance on the erroneous appraisal.'”
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.