Fretz v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1942
6 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 Fowler v. Equitable Trust Co. · Gill v. Rice · Stanley v. Westrop · Bateman v. Blake · Gore v. . Lewis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the North Carolina statute, the entire interest is forfeited in usurious contracts, and the courts apply all payments of interest, though made as such, upon the principal debt Moore v. Beaman, 111 N. C. 328 ; Gore v. Lewis, 109 N. C. 539 . In Gill v. Rice, 13 Wis. 553 , the Supreme Court of Wisconsin held that, where no direction had been given by the debtor, the law would apply a payment upon a usurious contract to the extinguishment of the principal sum loaned. The same rule is adopted in Stanley v. Westrop, 16 Tex. 200 . In Bateman v. Blake, 81 Mich. 227 , this court applied the rule that on usurious contracts the payments, though made as interest, must be applied upon the lawful debt, although the statute at that time avoided the excess of interest only.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defendant shall not be compelled to pay any interest thereon.”
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.