General Dynamics Corp. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2006
2 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 10 U.S.C. § 2386 · 28 U.S.C. § 1498 · 35 U.S.C. § 102
Relies on Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Co. · Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · United States v. Carlo Bianchi & Co.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Those who enter a contract may take steps at any time after its execution to modify it. They may modify not only its substantive provisions but its prescribed procedures * * *.”
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.