United States Fidelity Guaranty Company v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
209 U.S. 306 · 1908
Citation profile
106 federal appellate · 38 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 310 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994), Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill (1978)
106 federal appellate · 38 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ex parte McCardle · Terry v. Anderson · Sohn v. Waterson · Jeannie Wilson v. Adam Iseminger H
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 310 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i)t is settled law that statutes are not to be applied retroactively 'unless the words used are so clear, strong and imperative that no other meaning can be annexed to them or unless the intention of the legislature cannot be otherwise satisfied.'”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The decision of the court below proceeds upon the erroneous assumption that Act Feb. 24, 1905, e. 778, 33 Stat. 811 (U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1909, p. i>48). was retrospective. That act amended the act of 3891, in several important particulars, which it is not necessary to state, and provided specifically that a suit upon the bond should be brought by one furnishing labor and materials, in the name of the United States, in the Circuit Court of the United States, in the district where the contract with the United States was to be performed, and not elsewhere. As this suit was brought after the passage of the amending act, it was brought in the only district where it could be “maintained if the amending act wore retrospective.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Any person or persons making application therefor, and. furnishing affidavit to the department under the direction of which said work is being, or has been prosecuted, that labor or materials for the prosecution of such work has been supplied by him or them, and payment for which has not been made, shall be furnished with a certified copy of said contract and bond, upon which said person or persons supplying such labor and materials shall have a right of action,” etc.”
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.