Woodcrest Construction Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
408 F.2d 406 · 1969
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Electronic & Missile Facilities, Inc. v. United States (1969), Community Heating & Plumbing Co. v. Kelso (1993)
9 federal appellate · 4 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 Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Difronzo v. United States · United States v. Atlantic Dredging Co. · Koppers Co. v. United States · Beacon Construction Co. of Massachusetts 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . Here, although there is no statement which can be made binding upon the Government, there was in effect a description of the site, upon which plaintiff had a right to rely, and by which it was misled. Nor does the exculpatory clause in the instant case absolve the Government, since: . . broad exculpatory clauses . . . cannot be given their full literal reach, and 'do not relieve the defendant of liability for changed conditions as the broad language thereof would seem to indicate.' Fehlhaber Corp. v. United States, 151 F.Supp. 817, 825, 138 Ct.Cl. 571, 584 (1957), cert. denied, 355 U.S. 877, 78 S.Ct. 141, 2 L.Ed.2d 108. As Fehlhaber said, general portions of the specifications should not lightly be read to override the Changed Conditions clause Ibid. United Contractors et. al. v. United States, 368 F.2d 585 , 598, 177 Ct.Cl. 151, 165-166 (1966).”
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.