Smithson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 791 · 1988
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Love v. United States (1989), Precision Pine & Timber, Inc. v. United States (2010)
10 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. § 1491 · 7 U.S.C. § 1941
Relies on Eastport Steamship Corp. v. United States · Somali Development Bank v. United States · Pine Hill Coal Co. v. United States · 221 Ct. Cl. 641 - Ordnance Research, Inc. 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“J. Secured Party will make or insure future loans or advances to Debtor to enable him to raise or harvest farm crops or raise livestock or other animals, provided funds are available and the Debtor meets all then current requirements imposed by regulations of the Secured Party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where appellants alleged that a government agency engaged in 'arbitrary, capricious, culpable and bad faith conduct toward appellants....' The Federal Circuit found that this was 'not a true contractual claim, but a tort claim against the Government for misfeasance and misconduct; that claim is, of course, outside the Claims Court's jurisdiction.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This is not to say that there was jurisdiction over every aspect of the case or every contention advanced by appellants; jurisdiction over the individual points has to be judged separately.”
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.