Moffett Co. v. City of Rochester’s Empirical Analysis
82 F. 255 · 1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1997
2 federal appellate · 3 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 Snell v. Insurance Co. · John Bradford and Benjamin Bradford v. The President Directors and Company of the Union Bank of Tennessee · Crowe v. . Lewin · Hartford & New Haven Railroad v. Jackson · Smith v. Mackin
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The executive board is hereby directed to cause a notice to be published in one or moro oi (he daily newspapers of said city, at least ten days before the letting of any contract, for sealed proposals therefor, each to be accompanied by a bond signed by at least two responsible sureties, conditioned that the person, firm or corporation making such bid, if it is accepted, will perform the work or furnish the materials, or both, mentioned in such proposals, and fulfill any contract that may be made with him, them or it. and the amount specified in the bond shall be recoverable thereon in case the proposer fails to perform the conditions of the bond and its accompanying proposal; such bids shall be opened on the day named in such notice. Said board may let any contracts as it deems for the best interests of taxpayers, but it shall publish all bids received by it, and the persons, firms, or corporations to whom contracts are awarded. Such contracts shall be enforceable by and in the name of the city of Rochester, or said executive board as such. Neither the principal or sureties ou any bid or bond shall have the right to withdraw cleaned the samo until the hoard shall have let the contract for which such bid is made, and the same shall have been duly executed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order that no injustice may be done to the defendants, their position in this regard is stated in the language of their brief, as follows: “ ‘ We admit that the evidence of the complainant shows that Mr. Burlingame entered in his proposal sheets certain figures and numbers different from those which he intended to make, and that the defendants have no evidence to contradict his testimony.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“neither the principal nor sureties on any bid or bond shall have the right to withdraw or cancel the same until the board shall have let the contract for which such bid is made, and the same shall be duly executed.”
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.