Havemeyer v. Iowa County’s Empirical Analysis
70 U.S. 294 · 1865
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1990 · most notably Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson (1971), Burgess v. Seligman (1882)
4 federal appellate · 21 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.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sound and true rule is that if a contract, when made was valid 'by the laws of the state as then expounded by all the departments of its government and administered in its courts of justice.. its validity and obligations cannot be impaired by any subsequent Act of the Legislature, or by the decision of its courts altering the construction of the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bagby v. Martin
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.