Grochowski v. Phoenix Construction’s Empirical Analysis
318 F.3d 80 · 2003
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 13 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably McCarthy v. Dun & Bradstreet Corp. (2007), Wigod v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (2012)
21 federal appellate · 13 district · 8 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 207 · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 5310
Relies on Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Assn. · Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. · Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis · Wilder v. Virginia Hospital Assn. · Universities Research Assn., Inc. v. Coutu
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Plaintiffs’ state-law claims are indirect attempts at privately enforcing the prevailing wage schedules contained in [Davis-Bacon]. To allow a third-party private contract action aimed at enforcing those wage schedules would be inconsistent with the underlying purpose of the legislative scheme and would interfere with the implementation of that scheme to the same extent as would a cause of action directly under statute.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here a scheduling order has been entered, the lenient standard under Rule 15(a), which provides leave to amend 'shall be freely given,' must be balanced against the requirement under Rule 16(b) that the Court's scheduling order 'shall not be modified except upon a showing of good cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A finding of good cause depends on the diligence of the moving party.”
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.