Weir v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
474 F.2d 617 · 1973
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2006
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 Welsh II v. United States · Corallo v. United States · Chris Berg, Inc. v. United States · Pacific Far East Line, Inc. v. United States · Mahoning Inv. 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has long been a standing principle in this court that the conduct and admissions of a party operate against him in the nature of an estoppel when the other party detrimentally relies upon that conduct or those admissions. Mahoning Investment Co. v. United States, 78 Ct. Cl. 231, 246 , 3 F. Supp. 622, 629 (1933), cert. denied, 291 U.S. 675 (1934). In the Mahoning case it was clearly stated that [T]he vital principle is that he who by his language or conduct leads another to do what he would not otherwise have done, shall not subject such person to loss or injury by disappointing the expectations upon which he acted. Such a change of position is sternly forbidden. It involves fraud and falsehood, and the law abhors both. [Emphasis in text. 200 Ct. Cl. at 510-11 , 474 F. 2d at 622 .]”
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.