Bacon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.2d 827 · 1987
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Layton v. United States (1993), Hart v. United States (2011)
11 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Indian Towing Company v. United States · United States v. Orleans · City of New York v. Federal Communications Commission
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
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.