Nichols v. Fearson’s Empirical Analysis
32 U.S. 103 · 1833
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance v. Lattimore Land Corp. (1981), 22 Wash. 2d 378 - Hafer v. Spaeth (1945)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Lloyd v. Scott · Eastman v. . Shaw · Munn v. President & Directors of Commission Co. · Bridge v.Hubbard
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The first is that to constitute usury there must be a loan in contemplation by the parties.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a contract, wholly innocent in its origin, and binding and valid, upon every legal principle, [would be] rendered, at least valueless, in the hands of the otherwise legal holder”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.