Burch v. Piqua Engineering, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2019
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 31 U.S.C. § 3730 (False Claims Act)
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · William Marbury v. James Madison · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Michaels Building Co. v. Ameritrust Co., N.A.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By ordering separate trials for the Plaintiffs' claim and the Defendant’s counterclaims, this Court has attempted: (1) to advance the Congressional policy of encouraging qui tam actions in order to discourage fraud by defense contractors; and, (2) to protect the Defendant’s constitutional right to procedural due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... from Government quality standards including, but not limited to, the following:,” after which they list a series of deficiencies.... Similarly, in Paragraph 15, the Complaint states that”
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.