Atkinson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
825 F.2d 202 · 1987
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Dreier v. United States (1996), Persons v. United States (1991)
55 federal appellate · 8 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. § 1089 · 10 U.S.C. § 505 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674
Relies on Feres v. United States · Chappell v. Wallace · Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital · Gilligan v. Morgan · United States v. Yellow Cab Co.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to service.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the distinctively federal nature of the relationship between the government and members of its armed forces, which argues against subjecting the government to liability based on the fortuity of the situs of the injury; (2) the availability of alternative compensation systems; and (3) the fear of damaging the military disciplinary structure.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“appears to breathe new life into the first two Feres rationales”
3 later decisions 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.