Cyr v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably 7 Cal. 3d 861 - City of Inglewood-Los Angeles County Civic Center Authority v. Superior Court (1972), Willman v. Children's Hosp. of Pittsburgh (1984)
26 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 20 Cal. 2d 488 - Routh v. Quinn · Estate of Jacobs · 30 Cal. App. 556 - West v. City of Oakland · Harris v. Philadelphia · Times Publishing Co. v. City of Everett
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'... There are many occasions in the experiences of municipal government when the quality of the thing to be supplied in the course of the public service depends upon conditions which differentiate bidders, and require the exercise of a sound discretion on the part of city officials in determining whether the wares or device which each individual bidder offers in the form of his own exclusive design are such as will meet the particular requirements of the intended work. In order to cover such cases it is quite usual in the provisions of city charters to find such terms as "lowest and best bidder,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rule in this state is that it is not necessary for a city council awarding a bid to other than the lowest bidder to make a specific finding or record to the effect that the lowest bidder was not the lowest responsible bidder, and that to attack the award, the attacker must allege and prove fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“only is employed, the courts have held that in determining whether a bid is the lowest among several others, there may be cases where the quality and ability of the thing offered--in other words, its adaptability to the purpose for which it is required--may be considered.'”
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.