General Methods Corp. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
458 F.2d 521 · 1972
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1995
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 United States v. Andrew Fisher Cycle Co. · Pitney-Bowes, Inc. v. United States · United States v. Kurt Orban Co. · General Methods Corp. 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the basis for avoiding the literal interpretation of a provision must be clearly established”
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.