United States Kelly v. Boeing Company’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.3d 743 · 1993
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 10 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States ex rel. Berge v. Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (1997), Ragsdale v. Rubbermaid, Inc. (1999)
57 federal appellate · 10 district · 8 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. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 593 · 28 U.S.C. § 594 · 28 U.S.C. § 596 · 28 U.S.C. § 597 · 31 U.S.C. § 3729 (False Claims Act) · 31 U.S.C. § 3730 (False Claims Act)
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Buckley v. Valeo · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Allen v. Wright · United States v. Nixon
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it shall have the primary responsibility for prosecuting the action, and shall not be bound by an act of the person bringing the action.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se imposo sequi-tur,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the FCA effectively assigns the government's claims to qui tam plaintiffs . . . who then may sue”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.