Lee Construction Corp. v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1988
12 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 Benson v. First Tr. Svgs. Bk., as Trustee · Chandler and Chandler v. Kendrick · Clark v. Grey · Jones, Et Vir v. Hammock Et Ux. · Maestri v. Nall
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where ... an illogical and spurious transaction is entered into for the purpose of making that which is usurious appear otherwise, the lenders will not be excused from the penalties of the usury statute by pleading ignorance of the law or that they did not intend usury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“forfeit the entire sum, both the principal and interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to the party charged such usurious interest”
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.