Kirk v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
451 F.2d 690 · 1971
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2017
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 2733 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on United States v. Causby · Foti v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Baltimore Co v. United States · Griggs v. County of Allegheny Pennsylvania · Goodyear Tire & Rubber 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he elements of an express and an implied contract are the same. The difference between them is one of proof. The express contract is proven by testimony showing the promise and the acceptance, whereas the implied contract is inferred from the acts of the parties and other circumstances showing an intent to contract.”
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.