Perrillat v. Puech’s Empirical Analysis
1831
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1989
9 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the present jurisprudence of France, the lender who pays interest which is not due, cannot compel the repayment, but some think that if the amount is beyond the legal rate, he may. Code Nap. 1906. In England money paid under usurious contracts can be recovered. Douglass' Reports.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The 1751st article of the Louisiana Code, divides natural obligations into four kinds, and under the first head classes those `which are invalid for the want of certain forms, or for some reason of general policy, but which are not, in themselves, unnatural or unjust.'”
1 later decision 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.