Donoghue v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2004
2 federal appellate · 8 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 United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n · Nevels v. Harris · Greever v. Persky · Adleson v. B. F. Dittmar Co. · Watts v. Mann
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Smith's motives had nothing to do with the validity or legal effect of the transaction, and could not have been successfully urged as a defense to defeat enforcement of the obligations he had incurred therein.' Here we have a transaction between appellant and appellee and the evidence is without dispute that appellee was charged (totally) more than the legal rate, so whether appellant did or did not intend to charge usurious interest would be of no effect under the plain letter of the statute." (Parenthesis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Terry v. Teachworth
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.