Jackson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
573 F.2d 1189 · 1978
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Dresser Industries, Inc. v. United States (1979), Lombard v. United States (1982)
18 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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. § 505 · 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 44 U.S.C. § 307 · 7 U.S.C. § 1516
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Feres v. United States · Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · Eastport Steamship 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[w]hatever the form in which the Government functions, anyone entering into an arrangement with the Govem ment takes the risk of having accurately ascertained that he who purports to act for the Government stays within the bounds of his authority. The scope of this authority may be explicitly defined by Congress or be limited by delegated legislation, properly exercised through the rule-making power. And this is so even though . . . the agent himself may have been unaware of the limitations upon his authority.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“One who purports to contract with the United States assumes the risk that the official with whom he deals is clothed with the actual authority to enter the contract alleged.[ 16 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“judicially admit at the back door that which has been legislatively turned away at the front door.” 431 U.S. at 673 . We concluded that”
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.