Foster v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1986
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. § 1552
Relies on United States v. Causby · United States v. Arthur Lynah · Yearsley v. W. A. Ross Construction Co. · Hurley v. Kincaid · Hollister v. Benedict Burnham Manuf'G
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We need not decide whether repeated trespasses might give rise to an implied contract. If there is a taking, the claim is ‘founded upon the Constitution’ and within the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims to hear and determine. Thus, the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims in this case is clear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.