Atkinson v. O'Neill’s Empirical Analysis
867 F.2d 589 · 1989
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Pleasant v. Lovell (1989), National Commodity and Barter Association National Commodity Exchange v. B Gibbs
19 federal appellate · 16 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. § 1912
Relies on Kentucky v. Graham · United States v. Testan · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · Benjamin 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an action is one against named individual defendants, but the acts complained of consist of actions taken by defendants in their official capacity as agents of the United States, the action is in fact one against the United States.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is well-settled that the United States retains its sovereign immunity from suit unless it has expressly waived such immunity....”
2 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.