Pritchett v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1958
1 district · 11 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 De Wolf v. Johnson · Green v. Kemp · Ladd v. Wiggin · Cain v. Gimon · Ransom v. Hays
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the parties to a contract are willing to abide by its terms, why should one not a party thereto be permitted to interfere? If the debts were unsecured, no one would think that the second creditor had the right to interfere. * * * Surely a man ought to have the right to say whether he shall keep his own promise or not. * * * While the law ought to protect the borrower from the clamps of the usurer by permitting him to repudiate all but legal interest, yet, if he feels in honor bound by the peculiar circumstances of his loan to pay a stipulated interest, it would seem as though no stranger to the transaction should be permitted to interfere.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Worth
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.