Quintana v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
997 F.2d 711 · 1993
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Kiowa Indian Tribe v. Hoover (1998), Wake v. United States (1996)
17 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Feres v. United States · Hefley v. Textron, Inc. · Madsen v. United States ex rel. United States Army, Corps of Engineers · Duffy 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Feres doctrine does not bar [plaintiff's] claim because she was on reserve status, rather than active duty status”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is obvious that the injured man could not have been admitted, and would not have been admitted, to the Naval Hospital except for his military status. He was there treated by Naval medical personnel solely because of that status. It inescapably follows that 'whatever happened to him in that hospital and during the course of that treatment had to be ‘in the course of activity incident to service.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e have previously held that active duty status is not necessary for the Feres `incident to service' test to apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ricks v. Nickels
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.