Crown Coat Front Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
187 federal appellate · 86 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 599 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Franconia Associates v. United States (2002), Honda v. Clark (1967)
187 federal appellate · 86 district · 26 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCrown Coat Front Co. v. United States (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2401 · 28 U.S.C. § 2415 (Indian Claims Limitation Act of 1982) · 28 U.S.C. § 2501 · 41 U.S.C. § 321
Relies on United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Co. · Soriano v. United States · United States v. Carlo Bianchi & Co. · United States v. Dickinson · Goss v. Board of Education
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 599 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contractor must seek the relief provided for under the contract or be barred from any relief in the courts.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every civil action commenced against the United States shall be barred unless the complaint is filed within six years after the right of action first accrues. The action of any person under legal disability or beyond the seas at the time the claim accrues may be commenced within three years after the disability ceases.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“interpreted in the light of the general purposes of the statute and of its other provisions, and with due regard to those practical ends which are to be served by any limitation of the time within which an action must be brought.”
7 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.