Thomas v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
856 F.2d 1165 · 1988
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably United States v. Hanover Insurance (1996), Missouri Coalition for the Environment v. Corps of Engineers of the United States Army (1989)
12 federal appellate · 7 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 20 U.S.C. § 1082 · 26 U.S.C. § 6402 · 28 U.S.C. § 2415 (Indian Claims Limitation Act of 1982) · 31 U.S.C. § 3720A
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Powell v. McCormack · Globe Newspaper Company v. Superior Court for County of Norfolk · Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he limitation set forth in section 2415(a) does not terminate all of the government’s rights on a contract claim after six years, but merely eliminates one potential remedy — the filing of a lawsuit seeking money damages. There are numerous avenues by which the underlying obligation embodied in the contract may be enforced after the six year period____ The statute of limitation can be differentiated from events which would extinguish the underlying obligation, such as discharge in bankruptcy, statutory discharge by reason of death or disability, or the successful assertion of defenses such as fraud in the inducement or failure of consideration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) Past-due legally enforceable debt eligible for refund offset. For purposes of this section, a past-due legally enforceable debt which may be referred by a Federal agency to the Service for offset is a debt— (2) Which, except in the case of a judgment debt, has been delinquent for at least three months but has not been delinquent for more than ten years at the time the offset is made; (emphasis in original).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grider v. Cavazos“fits well within the classic exception to the mootness doctrine for disputes which are 'capable of repetition, yet evading review.'”
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.