Gartrell Construction Inc. v. Aubry’s Empirical Analysis
940 F.2d 437 · 1991
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Green v. City of Tucson (2001), O'Neill v. United States (1995)
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 2305
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n · Hancock v. Train
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“state licensing laws cannot be 'applicable', or compliance with them 'necessary', where such laws are preempted by federal law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“state tribunal is acting beyond its authority.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The concern in Leslie Miller was that a state was asserting a right or power of review over the federal government's determination of 'responsibility.' The Court did not focus on the distinction between bidding and performance but on the state's interference with the federal government's responsibility determination. That interference occurs when, as here, the state requires a contractor with the federal government to comply with its licensing laws even if that requirement is not enforced until after performance has begun.”
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.