Holden v. Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
100 U.S. 72 · 1879
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably United States v. State of North Carolina (1890), New Orleans v. Warner (1899)
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · National Bank of the Commonwealth v. Mechanics' National Bank · William Brewster v. William Wakefield · Burnhisel v. Firman
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If payment be not made wben tbe money becomes due, there is a breach of the contract, and the creditor is entitled to damages. Where none has been agreed upon, the law fixes the amount according to the standard applied in all such cases. It is the legal rate of interest where the parties have agreed upon none. If the parties meant that the contract rate should continue, it would have been easy to say so. In the absence of a stipulation, such an intendment cannot be inferred.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Here the agreement of the parties extends no further than to the time fixed for the payment of the principal. As to everything beyond that it is silent If payment be no-t made when the money becomes due, there is a breach of the contract, and the creditor is entitled to damages.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rule heretofore applied by this court, under the circumstances of this case, has been to give the contract rate up to the maturity of the contract, and thereafter the- rate prescribed for cases where the parties themselves have fixed no rate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ohio v. Frank
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.