Scheppan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.2d 461 · 1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2008
6 federal appellate · 2 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 10 U.S.C. § 1071 (Military Health Care Amendments of 1987) · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 201 (ADAMHA Reorganization Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 213A
Relies on Feres v. United States · Brooks v. United States · United States v. Shearer · Alexander v. United States
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the provisions Congress ha[s] made for treatment and disability compensation, rather than the Federal Tort Claims Act, afford[] ... an appropriate remedy for service connected injuries caused by medical malpractice.”
1 later decision 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.