General Engineering & Machine Works v. O'Keefe’s Empirical Analysis
991 F.2d 775 · 1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Aerolease Long Beach v. United States (1994), Amfac Resorts, L.L.C. v. United States Department of the Interior (2002)
6 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Jizmejian v. United States · Sigmond v. United States · Ng Kam Fook v. P a Esperdy · G. L. Christian & Associates v. United States · G. L. Christian & Associates 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a mandatory contract clause that expresses a significant or deeply ingrained strand of public procurement policy is considered to be included in a contract by operation of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, under the Christian Doctrine a court may insert a clause into a government contract by operation of law if that clause is required under applicable federal administrative regulations. However, the Christian Doctrine does not permit the automatic incorporation of every required contract clause .... Accordingly, the Christian Doctrine applies to mandatory contract clauses which express a significant or deeply ingrained strand of public procurement policy. General Eng'g & Mach. Works v. O'Keefe, 991 F.2d at 779 (citations omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there was a legal requirement that the plaintiff's contract contain the standard, termination clause and the contract must be read as if it did”)). 6 . A copy of the form is also available on the General Services Administration (GSA) website. GSA, http://www.gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/ 116158 (search”
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.