Biddison v. Whitman’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1992
5 state decisions
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 Commonwealth ex rel. Snyder v. Mitchell · Maryland Pavement Co. v. Mahool · Sanitary District of Chicago v. McMahon & Montgomery Co. · George A. Fuller Co. v. Elderkin
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to the second proposition but little need be said. The subject has been frequently considered by this Court, and all the cases hold that when the awarding of a contract like the one here in question has been committed to a board, in the absence of fraud or collusion, its decision is final and conclusive and cannot be controlled by the Courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Is not the letting of contracts by the Board of Awards, like the one in question, to the lowest bidder, in the absence of fraud, absolutely final and beyond the control of the Courts by mandamus?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The record in this case does not charge fraud on the part of the Commission in awarding these contracts, and its action in respect to appellant’s bid was not arbitrary or capricious.”
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.