United States v. Binghamton Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 30 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 327 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022 · most notably Universities Research Assn., Inc. v. Coutu (1981), United States v. Anthony Grace & Sons, Inc. (1966)
77 federal appellate · 30 district · 72 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
Applies 41 U.S.C. § 35
Relies on Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co. · Endicott Johnson Corp. v. Perkins · Dalehite v. United States · Grammer v. Maryland
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 327 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a minimum wage law designed for the benefit of construction workers.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Act provides in pertinent part that The advertised specifications for every contract in excess of $2,000 to which the United States or the District of Columbia is a party, for construction, alteration, and/or repair, including painting and decorating, of public buildings or public works of the United States or the District of Columbia within the geographical limits of the States of the Union, or the District of Columbia, and which requires or involves the employment of mechanics and/or laborers shall contain a provision stating the minimum wages to be paid various classes of laborers and mechanics which shall be based upon the wages that will be determined by the Secretary of Labor to be prevailing for the corresponding classes of laborers and mechanics employed on projects of a character similar to the contract work in the city, town, village, or other civil subdivision of the State, in which the work is to be performed, or in the District of Columbia if the work is to be performed there; and every contract based upon these specifications shall contain a stipulation that the contractor or his subcontractor shall pay all mechanics and laborers employed directly upon the site of the work . at wage rates not less than those stated in the advertised specifications, regardless of any contractual relationship which may be alleged to exist between the contractor or subcontractor and such laborers and mechanics .”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not less than those stated in the advertised specifications.”
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.