Plitt v. Kaufman’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Dua v. Comcast Cable of Maryland, Inc. (2002), Stock v. Meek (1950)
7 federal appellate · 47 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 Demuth v. Old Town Bank · Brenner v. Plitt · Boehm v. Boehm · Sears v. Barker · Bridge v.Hubbard
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This Court has held that no device or subterfuge of the lender will be permitted to shield him in taking more than the legal interest on a loan. In whatever part of the transaction usury may lurk, or in whatever form it may take, or under whatever guise the lender may attempt to evade the law, the court will seek to ascertain what the contract actually was between the parties and give the debtor relief. Andrews v. Poe, 30 Md. 485 [(1869)]; Brenner v. Plitt, 182 Md. 348 , 34 A.2d 853 [(1943)]." Id. at 611.”
5 later decisions 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.