Widnall v. B3H Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Ew Bliss Company v. United States (1996), Grumman Data Systems Corp. v. Dalton (1996)
1 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 Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., Inc. v. Bentsen · Andersen Consulting v. United States · Grumman Data Systems Corp. v. Widnall · Cecile Industries, Inc. v. Cheney
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nce the Board determines that the agency's decision is so grounded, it then defers to the agency's decision even if the Board itself might have chosen a different proposal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Neither the language nor the facts of the case show anything other than that Lockheed ... is consistent with the principle that the Board's task upon review of a best value agency procurement is limited to independently determining if the agency's decision is grounded in reason. If this court wishes to alter such a longstanding principle, it will do so explicitly with supporting rationale.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'A ground of protest ... shall be filed no later than 10 working days after the basis for the ground of protest is known or should have been known, whichever is earlier.'”
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.