Irwin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
122 F.2d 73 · 1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1976
3 federal appellate · 4 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 Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co. · Maiatico Const. Co. v. United States ex rel. Phelps · Hauptmann v. New Jersey · United States v. Faircloth · United States v. William R. Trigg Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(c) Nothing in this section [Section 1 of the Miller Act] shall be construed to limit the authority of any contracting officer to require a performance bond or other security in addition to those, or in cases other than the cases specified in subsection (a) of this section”.”
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.