Call v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
116 U.S. 98 · 1885
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1988 · most notably Grant v. Phoenix Mut Life Ins Co (1887), McBroom v. Scottish Mortg Land Inv Co of New Mexico (1894)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 37 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 Scudder v. Union National Bank · De Wolf v. Johnson · Rogers v. Jones · Lloyd v. Scott
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It must be proved that there was some corrupt agreement or device, or shift, to cqver usury, and that it was in the full contemplation of the parties." (Italics ours.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It has been held ‘that in construing the usury laws the uniform construction in England has been — and it is equally applicable here — thát to constitute usury within the prohibitions of the law there must be an intention knowingly to contract for or to take usurious interest’ ” — citing Call v. Palmer, 116 U. S. 98 , 6 Sup. Ct. 301, 29 L. Ed. 559 : Jones v. Berryhill, 25 Iowa. 289.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bomar v. Smith“"These decisions seem to be founded on plain principles of justice and right. For when two persons (the agent and the borrower) conspire together and for their, own purposes violate the law, how can punishment for their acts be justly imposed on the innocent third party (the lender) ?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Johnson
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.