Meyer v. Graeber’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1935
13 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 Van Benschooten v. Lawson
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.
““Horton, C. J.: . . . It is not necessary now to decide whether parties can make provisions in their contracts that interest shall become principal, because, if held they cannot, the portion of the note and mortgage containing such stipulations would be void, and therefore of no force; and the same result would be reached as to the interest being payable annually, as if we attempt to carry out the actual intention of the makers of the contract, without regard to the question of the validity of the same. ... As to the question of the oppressive and illegal character of such contracts, see Howard v. Farley, 19 Abb. Pr. Rep. 126; Van Benschooten v. Lawson, 6 Johns. Ch. 313 ; ‘Interest upon interest’, Albany Law Journal, vol. 16, p. 252, and the cases there cited.” (p. 167.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Nossaman
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.