Persons v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
925 F.2d 292 · 1991
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Class, Dreier v. United States (1996)
52 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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 10 U.S.C. § 1076 · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Feres v. United States · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Oneida Motor Freight, Inc. v. United Jersey · Brooks v. United States · United States v. Shearer
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he relevant distinction ... runs between servicepersons who are on 'active duty' and those who have been discharged or are on furlough, not between 'off-duty' and 'on-duty' servicepersons.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“for injuries to servicemen where the injuries arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to service.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]ractically any suit that 'implicates the military judgments and decisions' ... runs the risk of colliding with Feres.”
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.