Barrett Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
273 U.S. 227 · 1927
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1965 · most notably G. L. Christian & Associates v. United States (1963), G. L. Christian & Associates v. United States (1963)
4 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. United States · College Point Boat Corporation v. United States · Russell Motor Car Co. 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Just compensation for canceling the contract requires that the contractor shall be made whole and recover the expenditures necessary to perform the contract”
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.