Klein v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 1996 · most notably John Reiner & Company, Individually and to the Use of Kurz & Root Company (Incorporated) v. The United States (1963), Schlesinger v. United States (1968)
1 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2514 · 41 U.S.C. § 119 · 41 U.S.C. § 321
Relies on Moses Lake Homes, Inc. v. Grant County · College Point Boat Corporation v. United States · Russell Motor Car Co. v. United States · Volentine and Littleton v. United States · Riegel Textile Corp. 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(g) In the event that a Notice of Termination under this Section has been delivered to the Contractor and it thereafter is determined that the default or failure is due to causes beyond the control and without the fault or negligence of the Contractor, performance of work under this contract shall be deemed to have been terminated, effective date of the Notice of Termination, pursuant to the Section entitled `Termination at the Option of the Government,' and the rights and obligations of the parties shall in such event be governed by said Section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“has no resemblance to that of one who has terminated a contract for a stated reason, which turns out to be insupportable, but later discovers and relies on a valid reason for cancellation”
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.