Starrett v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 539 · 1988
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2015
15 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1314
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Baker v. United States · Chamberlin v. Isen
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“constitute[d] a specific and mandatory direction to the Navy to provide secondary treatment for wastes and to prevent their being discharged if they constitute^] a health hazard....” Id. at 541 . Beyond the fact that Starrett is only persuasive authority, this court declines to rely on that case because its reasoning varies from that used by the overwhelming weight of authority, as explained further below. . In fact, Waverley recognizes that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we review de novo a district court's determination that it lacks subject matter jurisdiction under the discretionary function exception”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny claim ... based upon the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function or duty.”
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.