United States v. Moorman’s Empirical Analysis
338 U.S. 457 · 1950
Citation profile
158 federal appellate · 12 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 402 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2010 · most notably United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. (1960), United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Co. (1966)
158 federal appellate · 12 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Relationships
Relies on Martinsburg Co v. March · Kihlberg v. United States · Strang v. Bradner · Sweeney 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 402 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the intention of parties to submit their contractual disputes to [arbitration was] made manifest by plain language.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[A]nd in Martinsburg & Potomac R. Co. v. March, 114 US 549 , 29 L ed 255, 5 S Ct 1035 , this Court enforced a contract for railroad grading which broadly provided that the railroad’s chief engineer should in all cases ‘determine the quantity of the several kinds of work to be paid for under the contract.decide every question which can or may arise relative to the execution of the contract, and his estimate shall be final and conclusive.’ Id. (114 US at pp 551, 552, 29 L ed 256, 5 S Ct 1035 ). In upholding the conclusions of the engineer the Court emphasized the duty of trial courts to recognize the right of parties to make and rely on such mutual agreements. Findings of such a contractually designated agent, even where employed by one of the parties, were held ‘conclusive, unless impeached on the ground of fraud, or such gross mistake as necessarily implied bad faith.’ Id. at p 555.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The opinion of the Contracting Officer as to the liability of this contractor under any such guaranty or as to the satisfactory fulfillment or compensation for the non-fulfillment thereof will be final, subject to written appeal by the contractor, within thirty (30) days, to the Administrator, whose decision will be final and conclusive upon the parties hereto, subject to Public Law 356, 83rd Congress, approved May 11, 1954, 68 Stat. 81.”
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.