Evans v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
876 F.3d 375 · 2017
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2024
1 federal appellate · 1 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 7 U.S.C. § 7751
Relies on United States v. Gaubert · Berkovitz v. United States · United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Mesnick v. General Electric Co. · United States v. Horn
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny claim ... based upon the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function or duty on the part of a federal agency or an employee of the Government, whether or not the discretion involved be abused.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the conduct of federal employees is generally held to be discretionary unless a federal statute, regulation, or policy specifically prescribes a course of action for an employee to follow. State law will not suffice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the exercise or non-exercise of the granted discretion is actually or potentially' affected by”
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.