State of Louisiana Folsom v. Mayor Etc of the City of New Orleans’s Empirical Analysis
109 U.S. 285 · 1883
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 17 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Hilton v. Guyot (1895), Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts (1887)
44 federal appellate · 17 district · 85 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 Pumpelly v. Green Bay Co. · Louisiana v. Pilsbury · Wolff v. New Orleans · Torpy v. United States
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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“liabilit[ies] ... created by a law of the legislature ... can be withdrawn or limited at [the legislature's] pleasure”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“term 'contract' is used in the Constitution in its ordinary sense, as signifying the agreement of two or more minds, for considerations proceeding from one to the other, to do, or not to do certain acts. Mutual assent to its terms is of its very essence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Chase v. Curtis · Crane v. Hahlo“[Where] liability for the damages is created by a law of the legislature, [it] can be withdrawn or limited at [the legislature’s] pleasure____ The imposition [of the original law] is simply a measure of legislative policy ... and subject, like all other measures of policy, to any change the legislature may see fit to make. Id. at 287-88 , 3 S.Ct. at 212-13 .”
2 later decisions 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.