Chen v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
854 F.2d 622 · 1988
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably King v. Simpson (1999), Johnson v. Sawyer (1995)
19 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 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 15 U.S.C. § 637 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Feres v. United States · Burns Jackson Miller Summit & Spitzer v. Lindner · Curiano v. Suozzi · Board of Education v. Farmingdale Classroom Teachers Ass'n · Martin v. Herzog
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]or liability to arise under the FTCA, a plaintiff's cause of action must be `comparable' to a `cause of action against a private citizen' recognized in the jurisdiction where the tort occurred, and his allegations, taken as true, must satisfy the necessary elements of that comparable state cause of action.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he district courts * * * shall have exclusive jurisdiction of civil actions on claims against the United States, for money damages, * * * personal injury * * * caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his * * * employment, under circumstances where the United States, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The FTCA's 'law of the place' requirement is not satisfied by direct violations of the Federal Constitution or of federal statutes or regulations standing alone.”
3 later decisions 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.