Cheney v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
972 F.2d 247 · 1992
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Ali v. Federal Bureau of Prisons (2008), Kurinsky v. United States (1994)
17 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Kosak v. United States · Schlaebitz v. United States Department of Justice
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arising out of the detention of property by law enforcement officers”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parmelee v. Carlson
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.