Scherr & McDermott, Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
360 F.2d 966 · 1966
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1988
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 Dale Construction Co. v. United States, Seaboard Surety Co. · River Construction Corp. v. United States · Anthony P. Miller, Inc. v. United States · Maytag Co. v. Meadows Mfg. Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do not ordinarily control where the contractors suffer additional costs because of the Government's fault”
2 later decisions 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.