Delmas v. Insurance Co.’s Empirical Analysis
81 U.S. 661 · 1871
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1953 · most notably Gold-Washing and Water Company v. Keyes (1877), New Orleans Water-Works Co v. Louisiana Sugar Refining Co (1888)
5 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 state decisions
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 Willard v. Presbury
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But, as we have already said, this is not the class of questions in which we are bound to follow the state courts. It is not based on a statute of’the state, or on a construction of such a statute, nor on any rule of law affecting the title to lands, nor any principle which has become a settled rule of property; but on those principles of public policy designed for the protection of the state or the public, of which we must judge for ourselves, as they do when the question is fairly presented.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This court has decided, in the case of Thoringion v. Smith, 8 Wall. 1 , that a contract was not void because payable in Confederate money.; and notwithstanding the apparent division of opinion on this question in thp case of Hanauer v. Woodruff, 10 Wall. 482 , we are of opinion that on the general principle announced in Thoringion v. Smith, the notes of the Confederacy actually circulating as money at the time the contract was made may constitute a valid consideration for such contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baldy v. Hunter“When a decision on-that point,, whether holding such ■ contract valid-or void, is made upon the general principles by which courts determine whether a consideration is good or bad on principles of public policy, the decision is one we are not authorized to review. Like in many other questions of the same character, the Federal courts and the State courts, each within their own spheres, deciding on their own judgment, are not amenable to each other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dugger v. Bocock
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.