Schmidt v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
933 F.2d 639 · 1991
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Skwira ex rel. Estate of Skwira v. United States (2003), Thorn v. Jefferson-Pilot Life Insurance (2006)
34 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 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. § 2401
Relies on Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Communications Workers of America v. Montano · Milam v. United States Postal Service · Powers 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is an affirmative defense which the defendant has the burden of establishing.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] tort claim against the United States shall be forever barred unless it is presented in writing to the appropriate Federal agency within two years after such claim accrues ... `Because suits against the government are subject to equitable tolling, compliance with this limitations period is not a jurisdictional prerequisite to suing the government.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that compliance with the statute of limitations was not a jurisdictional prerequisite to an action against the government, because”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.