Hooe v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 federal appellate · 20 district ·

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 220 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If an officer, upon his own responsibility and without the authority of Congress, assumes to bind the government, by express or implied contract, to pay a sum in excess of that limited by Congress for the purposes of such a contract, the contract is a. nullity, so far as the government is concerned, and no legal obligation arises upon its part to meet its provisions. If the circumstances justify such a course, Congress in its discretion can intervene and do justice to the owner of private property used by officers of the government in good faith for public purposes, although without direct legislative authority. The plaintiffs’ remedy is in that direction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Doullut

2. “will not, in any legal or constitutional sense, represent the United States, and what he does or omits to do, without the authority of Congress, cannot create a claim against the Government 'founded upon the Constitution.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. No. 97-5055

3. “exclusively on the Constitution, without reference to any statute of the United States, or to any contract arising under an act of Congress.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Maine Community Health Options v. United States