Blain v. Willson’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1973
10 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It will be observed that the statute does not provide that, where the borrower has paid usurious interest, he may recover it back in a separate action, but the legislature has in effect said that in an action to enforce a usurious contract, only the principal sum shall be recovered; that the plaintiff forfeits all interest when usury is proven. The meaning of the statute is that the plea of usury can only be set up in a suit upon the usurious contract. The borrower can refuse to pay, and when action is brought against him, he can plead his defense. He cannot pay the usurious interest and then turn around and recover it back.””
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.