Johnson v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
983 F.2d 1316 · 1993
Citation profile
42
cited by 42 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
January 2018
most recently cited
26 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Feres v. United States · Hafer v. Melo · Barr v. Matteo · Davis v. Michigan Department of the Treasury · Sisson v. Ruby
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon certification by the Attorney General that the defendant employee was acting within the scope of his office or employment at the time of the incident out of which the claim arose, any civil action or proceeding commenced upon such claim in a United States district court shall be deemed an action against the United States under the provisions of this title and all references thereto, and the United States shall be substituted as the party defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to separate the activity that constitutes the wrong from its surrounding context ... would effectively emasculate the immunity defense. Once the wrongful acts' are excluded from an exercise of authority, only innocuous activity remains to which immunity would be available.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“officers or employees of any federal agency ... and persons acting on behalf of a federal agency in an official capacity, temporarily or permanently in the service of the United States, whether with or without compensation.”
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.