Sosebee v. Boswell’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably Woodall v. Chuck Dory Auto Sales, Inc. (2001), Ballard v. Martin (2002)
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Winston v. Personal Finance Co. of Pine Bluff, Inc. · Strickler v. State Auto Finance Co. · Hollan v. American Bank of Commerce & Trust Co. · O'BRIEN v. Atlas Finance Co. · Doyle v. American Loan Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Secondly, the moneylender cannot impose upon the borrower charges that in fact constitute the lender’s overhead expenses or costs of doing business. Such outlays are fundamentally for the lender’s benefit and cannot, by whatever device, be shouldered off upon the borrower. On this point our recent decisions are unequivocal. Strickler v. State Auto Finance Co., 220 Ark. 565 , 249 S. W. 2d 307 (1952); Winston v. Personal Finance Co., 220 Ark. 580 , 249 S. W. 2d 315 (1952).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If this transaction is not usurious, then any transaction can be dressed up so as not to constitute usury although it would be clear that it was merely a scheme to evade the usury laws”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any profit exacted by the lender must be treated as interest if it depends upon a contingency not within the control of the debtor”
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.