New Jersey v. Yard’s Empirical Analysis
95 U.S. 104 · 1877
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2006 · most notably United States v. Winstar Corp. (1996), Siler v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad (1909)
1 federal appellate · 46 state decisions — followed in 14 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 William Oliver and Micajah Williams v. Robert Piatt · Morgan v. Louisiana · The Piqua Branch of the State Bank of Ohio v. Jacob Knoop Treasurer of Miami County · Tomlinson v. Jessup
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Which tax (one-half of 1 per cent.) shall be in lieu and satisfaction of all other taxation or imposition whatsoever by or under the authority of this state, or any law thereof.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The principal function of a legislative body is not to make contracts but to make laws which declare the policy of the state and are subject to repeal when a subsequent Legislature shall determine to alter that policy. Nevertheless, it is established that a legislative enactment may contain provisions which, when accepted as the basis of action by individuals, become contracts between them and the State or its subdivisions within the protection of Article 1, § 10. If the people’s representatives deem it in the public interest they may adopt a policy of contracting in respect of public business for a term longer than the life of the current session of the Legislature.”
1 later decision 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 · 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.