22 Tenn. App. 262 - Lyons v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1991
6 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 Stewart v. Lathrop Mfg. Co. · 5 Tenn. App. 72 - Brannan v. Davis · Causey v. Yeates · Hughes Mfg. Co. v. Conyers · Memphis Bethel v. Bank
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.
“If a [lender] sue upon a contract usurious upon its face, and in stating his case the usury is made to appear, this court has held that he cannot recover even the sum actually advanced. Isler v. Brunson, 6 Humph. 277 . The reason is that his contract is illegal, . . . and he is repelled upon the well-settled principle that the courts will not lend their aid for the enforcement of a contract which is in violation of the law of the land. But when the usury is made to appear by plea of the [borrower] only, the contract is held to be good for the sum due, and interest. . . . [W]henever the party to whom money is advanced upon an usurious contract is the actor, and discloses the usury, he can only avoid the excess over the legal interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.