Morgan Engineering Co. v. Cache River Drainage District’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1947
16 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled under our’Constitution that the Legislature may not pass an act impairing the obligation of a contract. The board of directors of the drainage district made a. valid and binding contract with the engineering company to furnish all the engineering sendees that would be required in the preliminary surveys, and also for the construction of the ditches required under the lernas of the act. Any law passed by the Legislature, the effect of which would be to impair the binding force of this contract, would be contrary to lire Constitution, and void. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Rogers
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.