United States Ex Rel. Sherman v. Carter Constr. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
247 federal appellate · 88 district · 170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 754 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Amax Coal Co. (1981), Morrison-Knudsen Construction Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (1983)
247 federal appellate · 88 district · 170 state decisions — followed in 32 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. Sherman v. Carter (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Blair v. Commissioner · Clifford Macevoy Co v. United States · Fleisher Engineering & Construction Co. v. United States ex rel. Hallenbeck · Title Guaranty Trust Company v. Crane Company
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 754 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the sole benefit of the beneficiaries of the fund.”
54 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]very person who has furnished labor or material”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Miller Act should receive a liberal construction to effectuate its protective purposes.”
6 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.