Louisiana v. New Orleans’s Empirical Analysis
102 U.S. 203 · 1880
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2013 · most notably Hans v. State of Louisiana (1890), Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell (1934)
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 110 state decisions — followed in 27 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.
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The obligation of a contract in the constitutional sense is the means provided by law by which it can be enforced — by which the parties can be obliged to perform it. Whatever legislation lessens the efficacy of these means impairs the obligation. If it tend to postpone or retard the enforcement of the contract, the obligation of the latter is to that extent weakened.””
8 later decisions 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.