United States Upon the Relation and for the Use and Benefit of Texas Portland Cement Company v. D C McCord’s Empirical Analysis
233 U.S. 157 · 1914
Citation profile
179 federal appellate · 46 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 433 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2019 · most notably United States v. Mayer (1914), Home Ins Co v. Dick (1930)
179 federal appellate · 46 district · 73 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Lake County v. Rollins · United States of America v. Lexington Mill & Elevator Company · Pollard v. Bailey · Fourth Nat Bank of City of New York v. Francklyn
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 433 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n general, a party pursuing a statutory remedy must comply with all the procedures the statute mandates. As the Supreme Court put it ..., if a statute “creates a new liability and gives a special remedy for it, ... upon well-settled principles the limitations upon such liability become a part of the right conferred, and compliance with them is made essential to the assertion and benefit of the liability itself.””
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If no suit should be brought by the United States within six months from the completion and final settlement of said contract.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is elementary that an amendment [relates back] to the filing of the petition, and is to supply defects in the cause of action then existing, or at most to bring into the suit grounds of action which existed at the beginning of the case.”
2 later decisions 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.