Baum v. Thoms’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 1971 · most notably Westman v. Dye (1931), Matter of Ziegler v. . Cassidy's Sons (1917)
42 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Falvey · State v. Rollins · Bank for Savings v. Collector · Pape v. Wright · Bexar Building & Loan Ass'n v. Robinson
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a greater rate of interest than is hereby allowed shall be contracted for, the contract shall be void as to the usurious interest contracted for; and, in an action on such contract, if it appears that interest at a higher rate than eight per cent has been, directly or indirectly, contracted for, the excess of interest over six per cent shall be deemed usurious and illegal, and, in an action on a contract affected by such usury, the excess over the legal interest may be recouped by the debtor, whenever it has been reserved or paid before the bringing of the suit.””
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.