Home of the Friendless v. Rouse’s Empirical Analysis
75 U.S. 430 · 1869
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1998 · most notably Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad (1916), Choate v. Trapp (1912)
29 state decisions — followed in 16 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 New Jersey v. Wilson · Commonwealth v. Bird
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There Is no necessity of looking for the consideration for a legislative contract, outside of the objects for which the; corporation was created. These objects were deemed by the Legislature to be beneficial to the community, and litis benefit constitutes the consideration for the contract, and no other is required to support it. * * * We are of the opinion that the state of Missouri did make a contract on sufficient consideration with the Home of the. Friendless, lo exempt The properly of the corporation from taxation, and that the attempt made on behalf of the state through its authorized agent, notwithstanding this agreement lo compel it to pay taxes, is an indirect mode of impairing the obligation of the contract, and cannot be allowed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Unless forbidden by some exceptional constitutional provision, the same authority which can make a law can repeal it. The Constitution of the United States has imposed such a limitation upon the legislative power of all the states by declaring that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of a contract. * * * It has become the established law of this court that, a legislative enactment, in the ordinary form of a statute, may contain provisions which, when accepted as the basis of action by individuals or corporations, become contracts between them and the state within the protection of the clause referred to of the federal Constitution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.