subcontract
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 334 U.S. 742 - Lichter v. United States · 1948Most cited · 1,155 citing opinions
any purchase order or agreement to perform all or any part of the work, or to make or furnish any article, required for the performance of another contract or subcontract.
How often courts cite the case defining “subcontract”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “subcontract” — 1,154 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.