government estoppel
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 310 U.S. 16 - United States v. City & County of San Francisco · 1940Most cited · 892 citing opinions
the United States is neither bound nor estopped by acts of its officers or agents in entering into an arrangement or agreement to do or cause to be done what the law does not sanction or permit
How often courts cite the case defining “government estoppel”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “government estoppel” — 892 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.