Barnes v. Whitaker’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Towle v. Quante (1910), White v. Harris (1903)
27 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““With the penalties imposed by the law upon the usurers for their violation of it, we have nothing to do. That is a matter between the state of Iowa and her citizens. We cannot punish her citizens for violating the laws to which they owe allegiance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gardner v. Rumsey
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.