Boruski v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
803 F.2d 1421 · 1986
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Rexnord Holdings, Inc. v. Bidermann (1994), Goka v. Bobbitt (1988)
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 42 U.S.C. § 247B (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009)
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Aldinger v. Howard · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Mann v. Koob
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]oth the history of the defense and its general rationale lead us to the conclusion that it would be illogical to limit the availability of the defense solely to “military” contractors. If a contractor has acted in the sovereign’s stead and can prove the elements of the defense, then he should not be denied the extension of sovereign immunity that is the government contract defense.”
3 later decisions 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.