Andrulonis v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
924 F.2d 1210 · 1991
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably United States v. Horn (1994), Andrulonis v. United States (1991)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · Berkovitz v. United States · United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Indian Towing Company v. United States · United States v. Muniz
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“B. Liability shall not be imposed on public entities or their officers or employees based upon the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform their policymaking or discretionary acts when such acts are within the scope of their lawful powers and duties. C. The provisions of Subsection B of this Section are not applicable: (1) To acts or omissions which are not reasonably related to the legitimate governmental objective for which the policy-making or discretionary power exists; or (2) To acts or omissions which constitute criminal, fraudulent, malicious, intentional, willful, outrageous, reckless, or flagrant misconduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Settling parties may not structure the apportionment to avoid a later setoff by a nonsettling defendant; to hold otherwise would permit them to circumvent the policy underlying section 15-108_ [T]he New York cases establish that the parties’ settlement agreement, even when confirmed by a court order, does not bind a trial court in determining the proper allocation of settlement proceeds for purposes of setoff. That allocation must follow from a comparison by the trial court of the injuries of the settling plaintiffs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“) when he contracted the disease of rabies while conducting a laboratory experiment. He became tragically ill and suffered severe and permanent injuries as a result of the disease. The tragic experiment took place in the state-operated Griffin Laboratories, under the supervision of Dr. John G. Debbie, also a scientist employed by NYSDOH. The rabies viral strain used in the experiment was provided by Dr. George M. Baer, a federal government scientist from the Center for Disease Control (”
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.