State Indiana Anderson v. Brand’s Empirical Analysis
303 U.S. 95 · 1938
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 57 district · 232 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 533 later decisions (63 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Volt Information Sciences Inc v. Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (1989), Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad (1944)
78 federal appellate · 57 district · 232 state decisions — followed in 32 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 Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · Barbier v. Connolly · Siler v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Humphrey's Ex'r v. United States · Burton 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 533 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`accord respectful consideration and great weight'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he title of the act is couched in terms of contract”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The principal function of a legislative body is not to make contracts but to make laws which declare the policy of the state and are subject to repeal when a subsequent legislature shall determine to alter that policy. Nevertheless, it is established that a legislative enactment may contain provisions which, when accepted as the basis of action by individuals, become contracts between them and the State or its subdivisions within the protection of Art. I, §10. If the people’s representatives deem it in the public interest they may adopt a policy of contracting in respect of public business for a term longer than the life of the current session of the legislature.””
6 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.