Lauer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
968 F.2d 1428 · 1992
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
October 2007
most recently cited
13 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2674
Relies on Feres v. United States · Brooks v. United States · United States v. Shearer · Mills v. Tucker · Rodrigue 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the question of whether to light a highway is a military decision”
2 later decisions 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.