Norvell v. Hedrick’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1921
1 district · 7 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 Parmelee v. Lawrence · Davis v. Demming · Woodson v. Perkins · 20 W. Va. 424 - Quarrier v. B. & O. R. R.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where usurious interest has been paid and tbe transaction closed, the borrower may' recover back from the lender the excess so paid beyond the legal rate, in an action of assumpsit for money had and received; but if the debt, or any part of it, on which such usurious interest has been paid, remains unpaid, a court of equity in stating the account between the parties will credit upon the principal of such unpaid part whatever usurious interest has been paid, and give the lender a decree for his debt, with legal interest only.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Laws v. Fleming
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.