Miller v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1943
4 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 Rosa v. . Butterfield
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However, the effect of the act is not limited to the case of a corporation made a party defendant to an action, and setting up usury as a defense thereto. The courts have interpreted the word ‘defense’ to mean ‘any position or attitude in an action in which a corporation seeks to avoid its own contract by showing that it is usurious.’ This interpretation was adopted because the contrary construction would have defeated all the beneficent purposes of the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no corporation shall interpose the defense of usury to any cause of action hereafter arising.”
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.