Bryan v. Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
135 U.S. 685 · 1889
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1933
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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.
Relationships
Relies on In re Ayers · Ogden v. Saunders · Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy · Bronson v. Kinzie · Antoni v. Greenhow
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled by the adjudications of this court, that the obligation of a contract is impaired in the sense of the Constitution, by any act which prevents its enforcement, or which materially abridges the remedy for enforcing it, which existed at the time it was contracted, and does not supply an alternative remedy equally adequate and efficacious.””
1 later decision 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.