In re Canfield’s Empirical Analysis

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6 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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

1. ““Why should Burden make an agreement to enable him to receive' usurious interest and at the same time make it impossible for him to take such interest without placing him absolutely at the mercy of Canfield? “There is no pretense that Burden was non compos mentis at the time, and yet.it is difficult to believe that any rational being would have gone to the trouble and expense of having this elaborate agreement prepared for the purpose of avoiding the usury law and at the same time admit to the only man who could interpose a defense of usury that it was a void agreement. So far as the validity of the agreement is concerned, Burden might as well have stamped in red ink on its face the words ‘void for usury.’ We must assume that Burden is a man of ordinary common sense; but, in order to find that he made the statement quoted, we must convict him of stupidity which is unique in its.originality. It is difficult to imagine that a rational being would procure a safe to protect him from burglary and immediately send the ‘combination’ to the burglar whom he had most reason to dread.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ringer v. Virgin Timber Co.

2. ““shall be entitled to compensation for the labor and services to be performed, - * * which compensation is to be measured by computing 1 per cent, per month npon whatever part of the advance shall remain uncollected on the said accounts. *"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Liberty Doll Co.