McQuade v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 640 · 1988
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2017
6 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1826 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Sutherland v. United States · McLinn F/v Fjord Johnson F/v Supersonic Churchill v. F/v Fjord F/v Supersonic F/v Supersonic · Jones v. Illinois ex rel. Electoral Board · Friedland v. United States · Whirl v. Kern
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a plaintiff's claim falls within one of those exceptions, the court lacks subject matter jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is settled law that the United States may not be sued except when it waives its sovereign immunity.”
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.