Burns Mortgage Co. v. Fried’s Empirical Analysis
292 U.S. 487 · 1934
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 8 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011 · most notably Tipton v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. (1936), Graham v. White-Phillips Co. (1935)
54 federal appellate · 8 district · 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBurns Mortg. Co. v. Fried (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Swift v. Tyson · Gregg Dyeing Co. v. Query · Sowell v. Federal Reserve Bank · Flash v. Conn · Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias v. Meyer
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * They provide for interest on the principal sum at the rate of seven per cent per annum from date until fully paid, for interest payable semi-annually, and add that deferred interest payments shall bear interest from maturity at ten per cent per annum, payable semi-annually. While, therefore, the principal is to bear interest at seven per cent, overdue interest is to be paid with interest at ten per cent. The word ‘maturity’ seems obviously to refer to the due dates of interest and not to the date for payment of principal.” (Italics added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomson v. Calhoun
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.