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Coco Brothers Inc v. Pierce US’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
2
states following
November 2010
most recently cited

9 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2010

9 district · 3 state decisions

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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 Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · United States v. Testan · Bob Jones University v. United States · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Scanwell Laboratories, Inc. v. John H. Shaffer, Administrator (Acting) of the Federal Aviation Administration

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In relevant part, § 1491 provides: (a)(1) The United States Claims Court shall have jurisdiction to render judgment upon any claim against the United States founded either upon the Constitution, or any Act of Congress or any regulation of an executive department, or upon any express or implied contract with the United States, or for liqui dated or unliquidated damages in cases not sounding in tort. (3) To afford complete relief on any contract claim brought before the contract is awarded, the court shall have exclusive jurisdiction to grant declaratory judgments and such equitable and extraordinary relief as it deems proper, including but not limited to injunctive relief. In exercising this jurisdiction, the court shall give due regard to the interests of national defense and national security.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[T]he surest way to misinterpret a statute or a rule is to follow its literal language without reference to its purpose.”
    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.