Sledge v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1978
5 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 Yellow Cab & Baggage Co. v. Green · Federal Mortgage Co. v. State Nat. Bank of Corsicana · Associates Investment Co. v. Baker · Associates Inv. Co. v. Sosa · Donoghue v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Smith's motives had nothing to do with the validity or legal effect of the transaction, and could not have been successfully urged as a defense to defeat enforcement of the obligations he had incurred therein.' Here we have a transaction between appellant and appellee and the evidence is without dispute that appellee was charged (totally) more than the legal rate, so whether appellant did or did not intend to charge usurious interest would be of no effect under the plain letter of the statute." (Parenthesis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Terry v. Teachworth“"Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that Howard Terry and Walter Mischer intended to charge usurious interest?" Answer: "We do not." "You are instructed that by the term `usurious interest' is meant the compensation for the use or forbearance or detention of money in excess of ten per cent per year."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Terry v. Teachworth
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.