Lockheed Corporation v. Sheila E. Widnall, Secretary of the Air Force’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.3d 1225 · 1997
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 10 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 167 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Ercegovich v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (1998), United States v. Ruhe (1999)
22 federal appellate · 10 district · 5 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
Relies on Perrin v. United States · Reflectone, Inc. v. Dalton · Rio Hondo Memorial Hospital v. United States · Manhattan Savings Bank 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 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To interpret a regulation we must look at its plain language and consider the terms in accordance with their common meaning.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“By its terms, DAR § 15-205.17 applies to 'interest on borrowings.' A borrowing is generally defined as a loan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the sum of the allowable direct and indirect costs allocable to the contract”
1 later decision 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.