Schmid v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
273 F.2d 172 · 1959
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1993
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Indian Towing Company v. United States · McAllister v. United States · Rayonier Incorporated v. United States a Arnhold · Jaffke v. Dunham · Dalehite v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It has been regarded from the outset as intended to fix an independent, nondelegable duty of compliance upon the owner of the property and upon each contractor and subcontractor engaged in the work. * * * •x- * * * * * “* * * The duiy 0f each js independent of the duty of the other, and neither can escape his statutory liability by pointing to the other’s breach of duty. If injury is caused by a defendant’s ‘wilful violation’ of the act or by his ‘wilful failure to comply with any of its provisions,’ he is liable regardless of the fault or liability of any other. * * *»”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“while the government retained general supervision of the construction project, it reserved no degree of control over the details of performance of the Construction Company under the contract,”
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.