Planters' Bank v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
47 U.S. 301 · 1848
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 7 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Olmstead v. United States (1928), Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell (1934)
6 federal appellate · 7 district · 62 state decisions — followed in 27 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 Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Fletcher v. Peck · Green v. Biddle · The President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States v. Dandridge
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One of the tests that a contract has been impaired is, that its value has by legislation been diminished. It is not, by the Constitution, to be impaired at all. This is not a question of degree or manner or cause, but of encroaching in any respect on its obligation, dispensing with any part of its force.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No State shall * * * pass any * * * Law impairing the Obligation of Contract * * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““So, in respect to effects, it has been held, when the word is used alone, or simpliciter, it means all kinds of personal estate. . . . But if there be some word used with it, restraining its meaning, then it is governed by that, or means .something ejusdem generis.” (p. 321.)”
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.