Clifford Macevoy Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
322 U.S. 102 · 1944
Citation profile
481 federal appellate · 140 district · 213 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,207 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably F. D. Rich Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Industrial Lumber Co. (1974), Fourco Glass Company v. Transmirra Products Corporation (1957)
481 federal appellate · 140 district · 213 state decisions — followed in 33 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
reviewedUnited States ex rel. Calvin Tomkins Co. v. Clifford F. MacEvoy Co. (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on D. Ginsberg & Sons, Inc. v. Popkin · Illinois Surety Company v. John Davis Company E H B · Fleischmann Const Co v. United States · Fleisher Engineering & Construction Co. v. United States ex rel. Hallenbeck
Cited together with F. D. Rich Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Industrial Lumber Co. · United States Ex Rel. Sherman v. Carter Constr. Co. · D. Ginsberg & Sons, Inc. v. Popkin · JW Bateson Co. v. United States Ex Rel. Bd. of Trustees of Nat. Automatic Sprinkler Industry Pension Fund · Fleisher Engineering & Construction Co. v. United States ex rel. Hallenbeck
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 1,207 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who performs for and takes from the prime contractor a specific part of the labor or material requirements of the original contract, thus excluding ordinary laborers and materialmen.”
109 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * any person or persons entering into a formal contract * * * for the construction of any public building * * * shall be required * * * to execute the usual penal bond * * * with the additional obligation that such contractor or contractors shall promptly make payments to all persons supplying him or them with labor and materials in the prosecution of the work provided for in such contract * * *.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Rep. Miller stated in the House that ‘This bill merely provides that in the construction of public buildings and other public works there shall be two bonds, one for the performance of the contract with the Government, and the other a payment bond for the protection of subcontractors and those furnishing the labor and material. Under the present law we have but one bond, with a dual obligation, but it is not satisfactory in that it does not afford protection to the subcontractors, materialmen, and laborers. This merely provides for two bonds, one for the protection of the Government's interests, and the other for the protection of the rights of labor, the subcontractors, and material furnishers.’ ””
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.