subcontractor
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 322 U.S. 102 - Clifford Macevoy Co v. United States · 1944Most cited · 1,207 citing opinions
under the more technical meaning, as established by usage in the building trades, a subcontractor is one who performs for and takes from the prime contractor a specific part of the labor or material requirements of the original contract, thus excluding ordinary laborers and materialmen.
How often courts cite the case defining “subcontractor”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “subcontractor” — 1,201 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.