Janowsky v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
913 F.2d 393 · 1990
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably John L. Taylor v. Western And Southern Life Insurance Company (1992), Johnson v. Martin (1991)
29 federal appellate ·
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)
Relies on United States v. Neustadt · Block v. Neal · Norman v. Turkey Run Community School Corp. · Villegas v. Princeton Farms, Inc.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Janowsky voluntarily undertook specific actions in reliance on specific representations made to him only: promises that if he aided in an investigation he would be reimbursed, his family would be protected etc____ [W]ithout the government’s false promises, Janowsky would not have been harmed because he would not have participated in the undercover operation.”
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.