Green v. Biddle’s Empirical Analysis
21 U.S. 1 · 1821
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 13 district · 174 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 389 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell (1934), United States Trust Company of New York v. New Jersey (1977)
35 federal appellate · 13 district · 174 state decisions — followed in 40 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 Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Fletcher v. Peck · United States v. Bevans · Linbeck v. State
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 389 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the words of a law, treaty, or contract, have a plain and obvious meaning, all construction, in hostility with such meaning, is excluded.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is no answer that the acts of Kentucky now in question are regulations of the remedy, and not of the right to the lands. If those acts so changed the nature and extent of existing remedies as materially to impair the rights and interests of the owner, they-, are just as much a violation of the compact as if they directly overturned his rights and interests.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The objection to a law, on the ground of its impairing the obligation of the contract, can never depend upon the extent of the change which the law effects in it. Any deviation from its terms, by postponing, or accelerating, the period of performance which it prescribes, imposing conditions not expressed in the contract, or dispensing with the performance of those which are, however minute, or apparently immaterial, in their effect upon the contract of the parties impairs its obligation.””
2 later decisions 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.