Ward v. . Sugg’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1980
1 federal appellate · 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 Oates v. National Bank · Woods & Co. v. Armstrong · The Oneida Bank v. . the Ontario Bank · Moore v. . Beaman · Glenn v. Farmer's Bank of North Carolina
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In two cases this Court — and by most eminent judges — has expressly held that the words, `deemed a forfeiture,' in the Act of 1876-7 (now The Code, sec. 3836) makes void the agreement as to interest. If any attention is to be paid to the doctrine of stare decisis , the precedents in our own Court do not leave this open to debate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The question whether it is valid in his hands is not an open one in this State. Such note is held to be void into whatever hands it may pass. Ruffin v. Armstrong , 9 N.C. 411 ; Collier v. Nevill , 14 N.C. 30 .”
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.