Barnson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
816 F.2d 549 · 1987
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 16 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Applied Genetics International, Inc. v. First Affiliated Securities, Inc. (1990), Mock v. T.G. & Y. Stores Co. (1992)
52 federal appellate · 16 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. § 2680 · 42 U.S.C. § 2014 (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009) · 42 U.S.C. § 2051
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Dalehite v. United States · United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · United States v. Morton
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary judgment is appropriate when there is no genuine dispute over a material fact and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen the same words are used in different sections of the law, they will be given the same meaning.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Moore · Moore v. S Raine““for injury or loss of property, or personal injury or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his office or employment, under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred.””
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.