Maintenance Engineers v. The United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “[d]etermination of the type of contract is a matter of law – not controlled by a label in the contract” (alteration added)
• “Deter- mination of the type of contract is a matter of law—not controlled by a label in the contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hymas v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2016-01-14· cited 65×
• Ace-Federal Reporters, Inc. v. Barram
  Federal Circuit· 2000-09-28· cited 38×
• Crown Laundry & Dry Cleaners, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 1993-09-22· cited 34×
• CMS Contract Management Services v. Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency
  Federal Circuit· 2014-03-25· cited 20×
• Myers Investigative & Security Services, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2000-09-07· cited 20×
• Ceredo Mortuary Chapel, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 1993-09-22· cited 4×
• Pilley v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2006-11-30· cited 3×
• SSA Marine, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2007-07-31· cited 2×
• Certified Construction Co. of Kentucky, LLC v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2016-10-31· cited 1×
• Sage Acquisitions LLC v. Hud
  Federal Circuit· 2024-10-18· cited 1×
• United Healthcare Partners, Inc.
  Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals· 2016-05-17
• Heartland Energy Partners LLC
  Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals· 2022-09-12
• Tpmc-Energysolutions Environmental Services 2008, LLC v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2025-03-28

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Torncello v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1982-06-16· cited 245×
• Mason v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1980-02-20· cited 69×
• Ralph Construction, Inc. v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1984-03-23· cited 19×