Decker & Co. v. West’s Empirical Analysis
76 F.3d 1573 · 1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2015
3 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
Relies on DeVito v. United States · Sharman Company Inc v. United States · Wickham Contracting Co. v. Fischer · Browning-Ferris Industries of South Jersey, Inc. v. Muszynski · Overall Roofing & Construction Inc. 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) Unless otherwise specified in the contract, the Government shall accept, as promptly as practicable after completion and inspection, all work required by the contract or that portion of the work the Contracting Officer determines can be accepted separately. Acceptance shall be final and conclusive except for latent defects, fraud, gross mistakes amounting to fraud, or the Government’s rights under any warranty or guarantee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“harm should accompany a defect in an otherwise proper termination notice in order for the contractor to seek relief based on that defect”
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.