Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy’s Empirical Analysis
71 U.S. 535 · 1866
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 27 district · 238 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 529 later decisions (88 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York (1978), Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell (1934)
84 federal appellate · 27 district · 238 state decisions — followed in 43 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 Fletcher v. Peck · New Jersey v. Wilson · Gilman v. The City of Sheboygan · Stocking v. Hunt
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 529 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has said that 'the laws which subsist at the time and place of the making of a contract, and where it is to be performed, enter into and form a part of it, as if they were expressly referred to or incorporated in its terms.'”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is competent for the states to change the form of the remedy, or to modify it otherwise, as they may see fit, provided no substantial right secured by the contract is thereby impaired.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is equally clear that where a State has authorized a municipal corporation to contract and to exercise the power of local taxation to the extent necessary to meet its engagements, the power thus given cannot be withdrawn until the contract is satisfied.”
7 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.