Maintenance Engineers v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
749 F.2d 724 · 1984
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2024
8 federal appellate ·
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 41 U.S.C. § 609
Relies on American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · Torncello v. United States · Torncello v. United States · Mason v. United States · 222 Ct. Cl. 436 - Mason 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the purchaser agrees to buy all of its needs for specified goods or services from a particular supplier, and the supplier agrees to fill all of such needs during the period of the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to order a minimum value of ... services during the life of the contract while retaining the right to obtain additional such services from any source it chose.”
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.