William F. Wilke, Inc. v. Department of Army of United States’s Empirical Analysis
485 F.2d 180 · 1973
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably United States v. John C. Grimberg Co. (1983), PGBA, LLC v. United States (2004)
32 federal appellate · 7 district · 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 2305 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Sierra Club v. Morton · Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co. · Scanwell Laboratories, Inc. v. John H. Shaffer, Administrator (Acting) of the Federal Aviation Administration · M. Steinthal & Co. v. Seamans · Keco Industries, Inc. 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While those seeking Government contracts have no right to the award of a contract, they do have a right to reasonable treatment of their bids.... This right derives from the combination of the statutory scheme regulating [the agency’s] procurement ... and the review provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 702 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether legislation regulating governmental activity inures to the benefit of those tangentially affected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“those seeking Government contracts ... have a right to reasonable treatment of their bids.”
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.