Commerce Trust Co. v. Best’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 49 state decisions

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

1. ““Under this statute, appellees are. allowed to recover double the amount of the interest from the one receiving the same; that is, the one for whose benefit it was paid. In the instant case, the Deming Investment Company, while it collected the usurious interest, did not receive the same within the meaning of this statute, and hence is not the one against whom the suit to recover such penalty can be maintained.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. East Dallas Clinic v. Stacks

2. “`Brashear did pay to, and said bank collected, a sum greater than the original debt would produce at 10 per cent. per annum for the use of the money during the time that payment represented, and the bank became liable for the statutory penalty.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Travelers Ins. Co. v. Stiles

3. “[T]he person paying the same [interest at greater rate than ten per cent] or his legal representative may by an action of debt recover double the amount of such interest from the person, firm, or corporation receiving the same”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stacks v. East Dallas Clinic