Haley v. Greenhaw’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2011
4 federal appellate · 18 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 Hare v. General Contract Purchase Corp. · Webster v. Sterling Finance Co. · Gibson v. Talley · Mitchell v. Duncan
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To so hold [that the transactions were usurious as a matter of law] would have the same effect as saying that a note bearing ten percent interest can never be sold at a discount unless the seller sells without recourse. Such a holding would of course, seriously curtail commerce, and would impair the negotiation and sale of commercial paper. Certainly, negotiable notes and mortgages are the subject of bona fide sales in the usual course of business, and very frequently their sales are at a discount. Probably, most often the sales are with recourse, for many business concerns would not purchase the paper otherwise. We see no reason why an actual and bona fide sale and purchase of paper at a discount should be hampered by the ruling that appellant seeks.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The penalty for a usurious transaction is indeed heavy, and should therefore be established by clear and convincing evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`The law will not tolerate any camouflage disguising a usurious transaction to make it seem innocent.”
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.