United States v. Callahan Walker Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
317 U.S. 56 · 1942
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 13 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 247 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Crown Coat Front Co. v. United States (1967), United States v. Blair ex rel. Roanoke Marble & Granite Co. (1944)
60 federal appellate · 13 district · 11 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 Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. · Securities & Exchange Commission v. United States Realty & Improvement Co. · 95 Ct. Cl. 314 - Callahan Walker Construction 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 247 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An ‘equitable adjustment’ of the respondent’s additional payment for extra work involved merely the ascertainment of the cost of digging, moving, and placing earth, and the addition to that cost of a reasonable and customary allowance for profit. These were inquiries of fact. If the contracting officer erroneously answered them, Article 15 of the contract provided the only avenue for relief.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'all disputes concerning questions of fact arising under this contract' shall be decided by the contracting officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“be determined as provided in article 15 hereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.