Gresham & Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
470 F.2d 542 · 1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably United States v. Long (1983), 39 Fed. Cl. 753 - California Federal Bank v. United States (1997)
3 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1491
Relies on Hol-Gar Manufacturing Corp. v. United States · United States v. California · Capital Service, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · Maxwell Dynamometer Co. v. United States · J. A. Jones Construction 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a party with knowledge or the means of knowledge of his rights and of the material facts does what amounts to a recognition of the transaction as existing, or acts in a manner inconsistent with its repudiation or permits the other party to deal with the subject matter under the belief that the transaction has been recognized, or abstains for a considerable length of time from impeaching it, so that the other is reasonably induced to supposed that it is recognized, there is acquiescence .... ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The waiver of a contract provision requires a decision by a responsible officer assigned the function of overseeing the essentials of contract performance, not just any Federal employee or officer whose work happens to be connected with the contract. Such a waiver by one with such authority will estop the Government. Assuming arguendo that the QAR representatives lacked the necessary authority, we think only one finding is possible: that the contracting officer knew or should have known of the situation, and that the authority was in his hands. If he did not know, he ought to have known, and knowledge is imputed to him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“has administered an initially unambiguous contract in such a way as to give a reasonably intelligent and alert opposite party the impression that a contract requirement has been suspended or waived .... [T]he requirement cannot be suddenly revived to the prejudice of a party who has changed his position in reliance on the supposed suspension.”
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.