Lichter v. Goss’s Empirical Analysis
163 F.2d 1000 · 1947
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1980
4 federal appellate · 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of this agreement.' * * * paragraph (b) is in the contract and expressly provides that the plaintiffs 'shall not have or assert any claim, or prosecute any suit, action or proceeding therefor against the Contractor (defendants)' for any damage 'by reason of delays * * * or for any other cause whatsoever,' which may be due to 'any act, omission, direction, or order of the Owner (Government).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lichter v. Goss
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.