Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States
Clearfield Tr. Co. v. United States, 318 U.S. 744 (1943)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1943-03-15
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- holding that federal common law governs the duties and obligations of the federal government under contracts to which it is a party
- establishing the Clearfield doctrine which controls how federal courts are to rule when there is no congressional mandate
- establishing a uniform rule in a dispute over commercial paper—a check—issued by the federal government because “application of state law ... would subject the rights and duties of the United States to exceptional uncertainty”
Citator
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- Cited by
- 17 opinions
Ordered that the opinion in this case dated March 1,1943, be amended by striking the sentence beginning on the 5th line from the bottom of page 3, which reads: “Its facts are practically on all fours with those of the present case.”
Opinion reported as amended, ante, p. 363.