Greever v. Persky’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Catalina v. Blasdel (1994), Mays v. Pierce (1955)
6 federal appellate · 94 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 Chakales v. Djiovanides
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order for such a transaction to be legal, the sale of the credit must be made for the purpose of enabling the borrower to obtain the money from a third party, or the transaction must be something other than a mere loan of money.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. a lender may, without violating the usury law, make an extra charge for any distinctly separate and additional consideration other than the simple lending of the money [citations omitted]; and where there is any dispute in the evidence as to whether there was any other separate and additional consideration, a question of fact is raised for the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ross v. Walker““Admittedly, a lender may, without violating the usury law, make an extra charge for any distinctly separate and additional consideration other than the simple lending of the money”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.