Coggeshall Development Corp. v. Diamond’s Empirical Analysis
884 F.2d 1 · 1989
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 23 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Lonsdale v. United States (1990), Katz v. Cisneros (1994)
24 federal appellate · 23 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · United States v. Testan · United States v. Sherwood · Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · Dugan v. Rank
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ederal courts do not have the power to order specific performance by the United States of its alleged contractual obligations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘Congress did not intend § 1361 to be interpreted so as to allow the extraordinary writ of mandamus to be converted into a device for obtaining piecemeal solution of contractual disputes to which the United States is a party.’ ” 884 F.2d at 4 (quoting Doe, 635 F.2d at 94 ); see also S.J. Groves & Sons, Co. v. United States, 495 F.Supp. 201, 209-10 (D.Colo.1980). . See also as to 28 U.S.C. § 1337 (providing district courts with jurisdiction of any civil action or proceeding”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Notwithstanding that the United States is not a named party, “a suit is against the sovereign if ‘the judgment sought would expend itself on the public treasury or domain, or interfere with the public administration’ ... or if the effect of the judgment would be ‘to restrain the government from acting, or to compel it to act.’ ””
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.