United States of America for the Use of Building Rentals Corp., D/B/A Dick Fritz Painting, and Cross-Appellee, (Plaintiff Below) v. The Western Casualty and Surety Company, and Cross-Appellants. Commercial Lathing Company, D/B/A Pacific Plastering Corporation, a California Corporation, (Cross-Claimant Below) v. Building Rentals Corporation, a Corporation, D/B/A Dick Fritz Painting: Dick Fritz, (Cross-Defendants Below)’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Ss Silberblatt Inc Ss v. East Harlem Pilot Block Building Housing Development Fund Company Inc (1979), United States v. Western States Mechanical Contractors Inc (1987)
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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 Balistrieri v. United States · Continental Casualty Co. v. Schaefer · Peter Kiewit Sons' Company v. Summit Construction Company and General Insurance Company of America, Summit Construction Company and General Insurance Company of America v. Peter Kiewit Sons' Company, General Insurance Company of America v. Peter Kiewit Sons' Company · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Hendry Corp. · Sam MacRi & Sons, Inc., a Corporation, and Continental Casualty Company, a Corporation v. U. S. A. For the Use of Oaks Construction 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the amount for which such services could have been purchased from one in the plaintiff's position at the time and place the services were rendered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“has long held that state law controls the interpretation of Miller Act subcontracts to which the United States is not a party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is of such vital importance and so material that it is held to go to the `essence' of the contract.”
1 later decision 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.