B-E-C-K Constructors v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
571 F.2d 25 · 1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2013
2 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
Relies on Kansas v. Missouri · Severin v. United States · Nager Electric Company, Inc. And Keystone Engineering Corporation v. The United States · Bennett v. United States · Tri-Cor, 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that where a time is not fixed in a contract for performance of an obligation, performance within a reasonable time, dependent on the circumstances applicable, is required. Where no time limit is given, it is presumed that performance will be concluded within a reasonable time.”
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.