Fry v. Layton’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In the action at bar, appellee was a total stranger to these contracts — had no connection whatever with them. He was in nowise affected by the alleged payment of usury. He went about the champertous business of gathering up these claims for a nominal consideration and suing thereon in his own name to recover the principal and interest of these loans — a profitable business indeed if permitted. ( 191 Miss. at 29, 30 , 2 So.2d at 565 .)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Liddell v. Litton Systems, Inc. · 716 So. 2d 673 - Kaplan v. Harco Nat. Ins. Co.

2. “[T]he purpose of the usury acts is to protect the necessitous borrower, and the right of recovery is personal to him and is confined to him, those who are parties to the contract, their privies in blood or estate, or those who would be affected by the usurious transaction, and the right of recovery is not available to a stranger to the transaction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 716 So. 2d 673 - Kaplan v. Harco Nat. Ins. Co.