The Supreme Court is established by Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which says: "The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court .

The size of the Court is not specified; the Constitution leaves it to Congress to set the number of justices.

The Supreme Court's opinion can be interpreted to mean that withholding information calculated to deceive the other party can cause a contract to be void on equitable grounds.

Laidlaw has been recognized by US legal scholars as a central case in the history of US contract law.

"[3] It is also the first case to start to articulate a doctrine of forbidding active concealment.