Davis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
824 F.2d 549 · 1987
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably McCarty v. Pheasant Run, Inc. (1987), Moorhead v. Mitsubishi Aircraft International, Inc. (1987)
13 federal appellate · 5 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. § 2671
Relies on Monsanto Company v. Spray-Rite Service Corporation · 85 Ill. 2d 1 - Alvis v. Ribar · Spray-Rite Services Corp. v. Monsanto Co. · American Airlines, Inc. v. United States · Spaulding 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The air traffic controller is required to give all information and warnings specified in his manuals, and in certain situations he must give warnings beyond the manuals. (When danger is immediate, extreme, or known only to federal personnel; when the controller is better qualified to evaluate a given situation or make more accurate observations than the pilot).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The pilot . . . must be aware of those facts which are material to [the aircraft's] operation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bonnet v. Whitaker
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.