Niles v. Kavanagh’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1981 · most notably Wallace v. Zinman (1927), 25 Cal. App. 3d 656 - Forte v. Nolfi (1972)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 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 Homeopathic Mutual Life Insurance v. Crane · 25 N.J. Eq. 160 - Washington Life Insurance v. Paterson Silk Manufacturing Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . the loan is not to be deemed usurious in the absence of evidence that the premium is in excess of the usual fair rate for insurance, or that in some other respect the provision for insurance was designed as a cover for unlawful 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.