Appleby v. Delaney’s Empirical Analysis
271 U.S. 403 · 1926
Citation profile
3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1996
3 district · 8 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 City of Walla Walla v. Walla Walla Water Co · New Orleans Water-Works Co v. Louisiana Sugar Refining Co · Appleby v. City of New York · Thorburn Ross v. State of Oregon · Zucht v. King
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The authority of the Dock Commissioner and the Sinking Fund Trustees, under the Act of 1871, is such as to make the plan and the refusal equivalent to a statute of the State, and, assuming that it is in conflict with the grant and covenants of relator’s deeds it is a law of the State impairing a contract obligation under Sec. 10, Article I of the Federal Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lerner v. Gill“It is not reasonable to suppose that the grantees would pay $12,000 . . . and leave to the city authorities the absolute right completely to nullify the chief consideration for seeking this property, . . . or that the parties then took that view of the transaction”
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.