Stauber v. Cline’s Empirical Analysis
837 F.2d 395 · 1988
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Mier v. Owens (1995), Persons v. United States (1991)
31 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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. § 1441 · 32 U.S.C. § 709 (National Guard Technicians Act of 1968)
Relies on Vandygriff v. Phillips · Feres v. United States · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · United States v. McConney · Chappell v. Wallace
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he government is not liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for injuries to servicemen where the injuries arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to service.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“interpreted [the Feres rule] as necessary to avoid the courts' second-guessing military decisions, or impairing military discipline.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“result in an impermissible intrusion upon military matters.”
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.