Sleeper v. Sweetser’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2019
12 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 In re Whittington · Walling v. Fairmont Creamery Co. · Khalil Semaan v. L. Quincy Mumford, Librarian of Congress · Engelhard Industries, Inc. v. Research Instrumental Corp. · Russell v. City of Rogers
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“$5 of the $55 repurchase price provided in the option to repurchase constituted a usurious rate of interest in that it amounts to 10% for ten days, or 1% per day ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reflecting that the transaction between the parties was one of borrowing and lending of money ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the right to repurchase the ring for $55 within ten days upon presentation of the written option.”
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.