Blanchard v. Terry & Wright, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
331 F.2d 467 · 1964
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Marlowe v. Fisher Body (1973), Greenwood v. Ross (1985)
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 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 Equitable Surety Co. v. United States ex rel. McMillan · Continental Casualty Company, a Corporation v. The United States of America for the Use and Benefit of the Robertson Lumbercompany, a Corporation · Equitable Surety Company v. United States of America · United States ex rel. Bryant Electric Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Stern v. Beer
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“More important than the allegations in the complaint concerning diversity of citizenship were the allegations that the contract for the construction of the dam and spillway was with the United States, and that the bond was executed to guarantee the performance of that contract and the payment of all bills for labor and material furnished in connection therewith. In our opinion, these general allegations were sufficient to invoke jurisdiction under the Miller Act without the necessity of referring to the Act by name.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“interest of the United States was merely nominal” and the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.