Rumsfeld v. Freedom NY, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
329 F.3d 1320 · 2003
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Centex Corporation Ctx v. United States (2005), Barron Bancshares, Inc. v. United States (2004)
7 federal appellate · 3 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · United States v. Winstar Corp. · United States v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. · Locke v. United States · McAbee Construction, Inc. 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In summary, coercion requires a showing that the government’s action was wrong ful — i.e., that it was (1) illegal, (2) a breach of an express provision of the contract without a good-faith belief that the action was permissible under the contract, or (3) a breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.”
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.