69 F. Supp. 409 - George A. Fuller Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2011 · most notably United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Co. (1966), J. D. Hedin Construction Co. v. United States (1965)
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 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
Relies on United States v. Behan · United States v. Gleason · Columbus Ry Power Light Co v. City of Columbus Ohio · United States v. Rice · Lovell v. St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance
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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court has held that it is ‘an implied provision of every contract, whether it be one between individuals or •between an individual and the Government, that neither party to the contract will do anything to prevent performance thereof by the other party or that will hinder or delay him in its performance.’ George A. Fuller Co. v. United States, 1947, [ 69 F.Supp. 409 ], 108 Ct.Cl. 70 , 94. See also United States v. Peck, 1880, 102 U.S. 64 [ 26 L.Ed. 46 ]; 5 Williston, Contracts § 1293A (Rev. Ed. 1937); Restatement, Contracts § 315.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he decisions of this court so holding are too numerous to list them all”
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.