Megapulse, Inc. v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
672 F.2d 959 · 1982
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 47 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Bowen v. Massachusetts (1988), Rmi Titanium Company v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1996)
74 federal appellate · 47 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 18 U.S.C. § 1905 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 702 · 5 U.S.C. § 704 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on United States v. Testan · Califano v. Sanders · United States v. Sherwood · Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · Land US v. Dollar
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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“depends both on the source of the rights upon which the plaintiff bases its claims, and upon the type of relief sought (or appropriate).”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] plaintiff whose claims against the United States are essentially contractual should not be allowed to avoid the jurisdictional (and hence remedial) restrictions of the Tucker Act by casting its pleadings in terms that would enable a district court to exercise jurisdiction under a separate statute.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ppellant's position is ultimately based, not on breach of contract, but on an alleged governmental infringement of property rights and violation of the Trade Secrets Act”
6 later decisions 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.