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Continental Casualty Co. v. Schaefer’s Empirical Analysis

173 F.2d 5 · 1949

Citation profile

111

cited by 111 later decisions

states following

April 2014

most recently cited

71 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Blakeslee Arpaia Chapman, Inc. v. EI Constructors, Inc. (1997), Fanderlik-Locke Co. v. United States (1960)

71 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 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

Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · United States ex rel. Susi Contracting Co. v. Zara Contracting Co. · Rigopoulos v. Kervan

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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“determination of the extent of the liability involves the construction of a federal statute, the Miller Act, under which it was created.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. United States For The Use And Benefit Of Walton Technology, Inc. v. Weststar Engineering, Inc. · 112 F. Supp. 2d 1023 - US EX REL. INTERN. BUS. MACHINE CORP. v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co.
“Every person who has furnished labor or material in the prosecution of the work provided for in such contract, in respect of which a payment bond is furnished under sections 270a to 270d of this title and who has not been paid in full therefor before the expiration of a period of ninety days after the day on which the last of the labor was done or performed by him or material was furnished or supplied by him for which such claim is made, shall have the right to sue on such payment bond for the amount, or the balance thereof, unpaid at the time of institution of such suit and to prosecute said action to final execution and judgment for the sum or sums justly due him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 112 F. Supp. 2d 1023 - US EX REL. INTERN. BUS. MACHINE CORP. v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co.
“for the protection of all persons supplying labor and material in the prosecution of the work provided for in said contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. United States of America for the Use and Benefit of H. O. Kilsby v. John R. George and National Surety Corporation

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.