Davis v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.2d 908 · 1987
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2007
12 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2401 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675 · 28 U.S.C. § 2679
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Adams v. United States · Best Bearings Co. v. United States · Drazan v. United States · Solomon v. Warren
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall not be instituted for any sum in excess of the amount of the claim presented to the federal agency, except where the increased amount is based upon newly discovered evidence not reasonably discoverable at the time of presenting the claim to the federal agency, or upon allegation and proof of intervening facts, relating to the amount of the claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review a district court's award of damages under a clearly erroneous standard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ach survivor may recover the value of lost support and services from the date of the decedent's injury to his death, with interest, and future loss of support and services from the date of death and reduced to present value.”
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.