Major v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
835 F.2d 641 · 1987
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Persons v. United States (1991), Appelhans v. United States (1989)
32 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. § 2680
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Feres v. United States · Chappell v. Wallace · Brooks v. United States · United States v. Shearer
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'encompass[es], at a minimum, all injuries suffered by military personnel that are even remotely related to the individual's status as a member of the military.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“basic choices about the discipline, supervision, and control of a serviceman.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the relevant inquiry ... [is] 'whether the suit requires the civilian court to second-guess military decisions, and whether the suit might impair essential military discipline.'”
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.