Vulcan Materials Co. v. Betts’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2006
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Desist v. United States · Clifford Macevoy Co v. United States · Thomas Somerville Co. v. Broyhill · Miller Equipment Co. v. Colonial Steel & Iron Co. · C. S. Luck & Sons, Inc. v. Boatwright
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Every person who has furnished labor or material in the prosecution of the work provided for in such contract. . ..””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“C.B. R. 30 Select Material, Type 1, to be delivered in proper condition to meet C.B.R. 30 Compaction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any person who has and fulfills contracts directly with such 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.