Routh v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
941 F.2d 853 · 1991
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Irving v. United States (1998), Rosebush v. United States (1997)
22 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Dalehite v. United States · United States v. Gaubert · Berkovitz v. United States · United States v. S.A. Empresa De Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · Paul 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n this case the [United States] contracting officer’s decision whether or not a given situation created a safety hazard in violation of the safety provisions of the contract was not a public policy deci sion. The government’s argument that the contracting officer must weigh the effects of shutting the job down versus the benefits of the safety measure is not convincing. The government’s position, carried to its logical extreme, would allow the undercutting of a policy decision to require a safe workplace by purely economic considerations not supported in the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]iscretion may be removed if the government incorporates specific safety standards in a contract which imposes duties on the government's agent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“of the nature and quality that Congress intended to shield from tort liability.”
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.