125 W. Va. 501 - Hoffman v. Unger’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stewart v. Barnes · Alabama City, G. & A. Ry. Co. v. City of Gadsden · Bennett v. Federal Coal & Coke Co. · Merrigan v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. · Maloy v. Board of County Commissioners
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.
““[t]he rule of law applicable to these facts seems to be undisputed. Where interest is recoverable, not by virtue of an agreement therefor, but wholly as damages for the retention of the principal debt, acceptance of the payment of the principal in full makes recovery of interest thereafter impossible. Interest in such a case is regarded legally as a mere incident to the principal, and when there remains no principal or part of the principal to be recovered there is nothing to which the interest can be incident.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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