Ara Leisure Services v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
831 F.2d 193 · 1987
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 15 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Kennewick Irrigation District v. United States (1989), Cope v. Scott (1995)
79 federal appellate · 15 district · 3 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. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Ashton v. Cory · Begay 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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] governmental failure to warn is not necessarily shielded from suit simply because a discretionary function is in some way involved. On the contrary, we have concluded that “where the challenged governmental activity involves safety considerations under an established policy, rather than the balancing of competing policy considerations, the rationale for the exception falls away and the U.S. will be held responsible for the negligence of its employees.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]udgetary constraints underlie virtually all governmental activity.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence in the record that Park Service standards explicitly required that park roads 'conform to the original grades and alignments' and that graded roads be 'firm, [and] of uniform cross section.'”
4 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.