Moorhead Construction Co., Inc., a Corporation, Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. City of Grand Forks, a Municipal Corporation, Appellant-Cross-Appellee’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.2d 1008 · 1975
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably New Pueblo Constructors, Inc. v. State (1985), Paul Howard Company v. Puerto Rico Aqueduct Sewer Authority (1984)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Eisenstadt v. Baker · Fuhrman v. United States Steel Corp. · McGee v. Ekberg · J. D. Hedin Construction Co. v. United States · United States v. Callahan Walker Construction Co.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [T]he nature of the particular losses make it impossible or highly impractical to determine them with a reasonable degree of accuracy; (2) the plaintiffs bid or estimate was realistic; (3) its actual costs were reasonable; and (4) it was not responsible for the added expenses.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fundamental principle of third party practice is that in order to maintain a third party complaint, a direct line of liability must be alleged to exist between the third party plaintiff and third party defendant independent of that between the first party plaintiff and defendant”
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.