Jacobs v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
239 F.2d 459 · 1956
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably United States v. Bedford Associates (1980), United States v. Jacobs (1961)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · United States v. Shaw · United States v. Ohio Power Co. · United States V. Norwegian Barque Thekla · Daniell v. Sherrill
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * upon the deposit by the plaintiff with the Clerk of a check or checks in the aggregate amount of $20,072.91, payable to Donald H. Jacobs, and a statement that the Government will not appeal from this decree; (d) that the Clerk shall release and deliver to Donald H. Jacobs said check or checks aggregating $20,072.91 upon order of this Court and upon the deposit by the defendant with the Clerk of (1) a certificate of compliance with the Patent Provisions of Contract NOrd-10531, as amended, said certificate to be signed by the defendant and approved by the Contracting Officer, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, and (2) a release to the United States in the form attached to this decree as part hereof.””
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.