Seibert v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1983 · most notably Kline v. Burke Construction Co. (1922), Ayers Scott McCabe
51 state decisions — followed in 25 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 Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy · Edwards v. Kearzey · Bronson v. Kinzie · Louisiana v. New Orleans · County Court of Cape Girardeau Co Missouri 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ The remedy subsisting in a state, when and where the contract is made and is to be performed, is a part of its obligation, and any subsequent law of the state which so affects that remedy as substantially to impair and lessen the value of the contract is forbidden by the. constitution, and is therefore void,’ ””
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.