Cooley v. Barten & Wood, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
249 F.2d 912 · 1957
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1994
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Fleisher Engineering & Construction Co. v. United States ex rel. Hallenbeck · Taylor v. United States · Bowden v. United States · United States ex rel. P. A. Bourquin & Co. v. Chester Const. 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the intent of Congress to fix a time limit after which the prime contractor could make payment to the subcontractor with certainty that he would not thereafter be faced by claims of those who had supplied labor and materials to the subcontractor.”
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.