Fryman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
901 F.2d 79 · 1990
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Esmail v. Macrane (1995), Central Green Co. v. United States (2001)
25 federal appellate · 1 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 33 U.S.C. § 702C
Relies on United States v. James · McCarthy v. United States · Boyd III v. United States Army Corps Engineers · Hayes 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“flood control. They would occur within the boundaries of the project, and but for the effort to curtail flooding the injuries would not have happened. Yet they would have nothing to do with the management of flood waters, and it is hard to conceive that they are”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he manner in which to convey warnings, including the negligent failure to do so, is part of the ‘management’ of a flood control project.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“damage from or by floods or flood waters”
5 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.