Clark v. Grey’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
1 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably Chandler and Chandler v. Kendrick (1933), 252 So. 2d 1 - Gunn Plumbing, Inc. v. Dania Bank (1971)
1 district · 57 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 De Wolf v. Johnson · Stout, Goldsborough & Perry v. Ennis National Bank · Hammond v. Hopping · Cotton States Building Co. v. Jones · Coe v. Frederick E. Muller & Gulf Pine Co.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The illegal taint can be purged, or eliminated, however, in either of two ways: first, by a renewal of the note or contract, after it has passed into the hands of a bona fide purchaser for value, without notice of the usury; secondly, by a reformation of the contract, by which the usurious interest is expunged by remitting the excess, and only lawful interest is retained or exacted. [emphasis added] McCullough v. Mitchell, 64 Ala. 250, 253 , and cases cited; 2 Parsons on Bills & Notes, 420; Hammond v. Hopping, 13 Wend. [N.Y.] 505; De Wolf v. Johnson, 10 Wheat. 367 , 6 L.Ed. 343 ; Chadbourn v. Watts, 10 Mass. 121 , 6 Am.Dec. 100; Scott v. Lewis, 2 Conn. 132 ."”
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.