Collazo v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
850 F.2d 1 · 1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2010
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Blessing v. United States · Sheila M. Jackson v. Paul A. Kelly · Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians v. United States · Rise 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where only professional, nongovernmental discretion is at issue, the discretionary function does not apply.”) 32 . The plaintiffs advanced a third theory of liability — that the defendant owed them a duty because it had”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“medical treatment by a government doctor does not necessarily involve governmental discretion”
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.