Spahn v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably Dornan v. Philadelphia Housing Authority (1938), 14 Cal. 2d 437 - The Housing Authority v. Dockweiler (1939)
9 federal appellate · 76 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Block v. Hirsh · Fallbrook Irrigation District v. Bradley · Rindge Co v. Los Angeles County Rindge Co · Marcus Brown Holding Co. v. Feldman
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is contended that the resolution and ordinance are invalid because in such contract as the Housing Commission may make, certain prescribed wages for labor are to be paid and the laborers to be limited to so many working hours. This provision in the resolution is there placed because it is a condition upon which the grant of financial aid is proffered by the government. It is said the resolution is contrary to public policy and violates such parts of the act of 1934 (section 4, c. 113) as require that all contracts be let upon competitive bidding to the best bidder. Two principal features of the act must be considered: One, that the act has as one of its outstanding purposes the procurement of financial aid from the government; second, that the work contemplated is of a public nature, as we think we have sufficiently pointed out. The work done in the consummation of the plan is essentially public work. A distinction as between liberty in contracting where private enterprise or public work is concerned, was recognized by the Supreme Court in Morehead v. People of New York ex rel. Tipaldo, 298 U.S. 587 , 56 S.Ct. 918 , 80 L.Ed. 1347 (cited). “Our General Assembly, ready to accept the benefit of the national laws offering grants in aid of public enterprises, began in 1934 to take advantage of such offers. In that year the Assembly enacted Chapters 68, 69, 72 and 113, and at an Extraordinary Session in the same year, chapters 14 and 15 were enacted, each and all adopted for th”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A public purpose [or public business] has for its objective the promotion of the public health, safety, morals, general welfare, security, prosperity, and contentment of all the inhabitants or residents within a given political division[, as, for example, a state,] the sovereign powers of which are exercised to promote such public purpose or public business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Two principal features of the act must be considered: One, that the act has as one of its outstanding purposes the procurement of financial aid from the government; second, that the work contemplated is of a public nature, as we think we have sufficiently pointed out. The work done in the consummation of the plan is essentially public work. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.