Farnsworth v. JENSEN’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 7 state decisions

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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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Defendants had promised to pay the interest quarterly. There thus fell due at the end of each quarter the sum of $175 as interest. This amount was owing from defendants to the plaintiff at the end of each quarter after the 6th day of December, 1910, when the last interest was paid as found by the court. If defendants had paid plaintiff the interest when due, he could have reloaned it to them, or could have loaned it to any one else, and could have contracted for any rate of interest not exceeding 12 per cent per annum.... The plaintiff therefore was as much entitled to interest upon the unpaid interest as though it had been paid to him when due and he had re-loaned it, and, in view that no rate was agreed upon, the legal rate of 8 per cent applied. The court therefore should have awarded plaintiff 8 per cent, interest per annum upon each quarterly installment of interest amounting to $175 from the time it became due until the principal and interest were merged into judgment, to wit, to the 28th day of January, 1914.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Christensen v. Munns