Cominotto v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
802 F.2d 1127 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain (2004), Katusha Nurse v. United States of America Unknown Employees of the Department of the Treasury US Customs Service (2000)
14 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on United States v. Mitchell · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · United States v. McConney · Chemical Manufacturers Ass'n v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“typically involve allegations of negligent guidance in an office within the United States of employees who cause damage while in a foreign country, or of activities which take place within a foreign country.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in the place where the negligent act or omission occurs, not necessarily at the site of the injury or the place where the negligence has its”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'headquarters claim' exists where negligent acts in the United States proximately cause harm in a foreign country.”
2 later decisions 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.