Vilanova v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
851 F.2d 1 · 1988
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2017
12 federal appellate · 5 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) · 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 903 · 33 U.S.C. § 904 · 33 U.S.C. § 908 · 33 U.S.C. § 919 · 33 U.S.C. § 933
Relies on United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Co. · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · Alder v. United States · Hill v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local 25
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An employer may become a third person, vulnerable to tort suit by an employee, if— and only if—he possesses a second persona so completely unrelated to his status as employer that by established standards the law recognizes it as a separate legal person”. ... The dual capacity doctrine does not destroy the theoretical superstructure of workmen’s compensation. ... The dual capacity doctrine merely allows the employee to sue his employer where the employer-employee relationship does not exist because the employer is acting in a second persona unrelated to his status as employer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quinn v. DiPietro“liability of the United States . . . because of the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spinelli v. Goss
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.