Freedman v. Katz’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
4
states following
November 1982
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rogers v. Buckingham · Stein v. Swensen · Franzen v. Hammond · Matteson v. Blackmer · Dalton v. Weber
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The great weight of authority is that a loan is not rendered usurious by the lender’s agent charging the borrower, for his own benefit, a commission or bonus for procuring the loan, in excess of the maximum legal rate of interest, where such charge is made without the lender’s knowledge or consent, either expressed or implied, and is not ratified or shared by him. 21 A.L.R. 841 , note. However, such knowledge and consent may be implied from circumstances. While not conclusive, circumstances held to be of weight, both of which are present at bar, are blood relationship between the lender and agent (Franzen v. Hammond, 136 Wis. 239 [ 116 N.W. 169 , 19 L.R.A. (N.S.) 399, 128 Am.St.Rep. 1079 ]; Rogers v. Buckingham, 33 Conn. 81 ); and the fact that the lender paid the agent no compensation for his services ( 21 A.L.R. 860 ).”
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.