General Dynamics Corp. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
585 F.2d 457 · 1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2017
2 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on J. Gordon Turnbull, Inc. v. Commissioner · Brennan v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Specialty Assembling & Packing Co. v. United States · J. A. Jones Construction Co. v. United States · Picker 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that it effectively requires the contractor to perform duties materially different from those originally bargained for.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Contracting Officer may ... make changes within the general scope of this contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“outside the scope of the contract itself.”
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.