Woodruff v. Trapnall’s Empirical Analysis
51 U.S. 190 · 1850
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2004 · most notably Hans v. State of Louisiana (1890), Utah Power Light Company v. United States No 202 United States (1917)
10 federal appellate · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 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 · Sturges v. Crowninshield · New Jersey v. Wilson · Leonard v. Vredenburgh
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“impair[ed], by legislation, the obligation of its own contracts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The law of tender which avoids future interest and costs, has no application in this case. The right to make payment to the State in this paper arises out of a continuing contract, which is limited in time' by the circulation, of the notes to be received. They may be. offered in payment of debts due to the State,- in its own right, before or after judgment, and without regard to the cause of indebtment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the Constitution of the United States embraces all contracts, executed or executory, whether between individuals, or between a State and individuals ; and that a State has no more power to impair an obligation into which she herself has entered than she can the contracts of individuals;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Antoni v. Greenhow
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.