Schlesinger v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
390 F.2d 702 · 1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Torncello v. United States (1982), Torncello v. United States (1982)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Stassen for President Citizens Committee v. Jordan · United States v. Acme Process Equipment Co. · Long v. District Court of Iowa ex rel. Lee County · John Reiner & Company, Individually and to the Use of Kurz & Root Company (Incorporated) v. The 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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This letter notice is your first warning concerning delinquency in deliveries of Caps, service, under the subject contract. You are requested to immediately advise the Contracting Officer the specific dates on which deliveries can be expected. Upon receipt of the information further determination will be made regarding the status of your contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“as a useful pretext for taking the action found necessary on other grounds unrelated to the plaintiff's performance or to the propriety of the extension of time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he Navy acted as if it had no option but to terminate for default . . . once the mere fact of non-delivery was found.”
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.