Sturges v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
114 U.S. 511 · 1885
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 13 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2008 · most notably Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994), Eisner v. Macomber (1920)
21 federal appellate · 13 district · 76 state decisions — followed in 28 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 National Bank v. Commonwealth · Farrington v. Tennessee · The Providence Bank v. Alpheus Billings · Bank Tax Case
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect to transactions or considerations already past.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The General Assembly shall have no power to pass retroactive laws.””
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.