Oppenheim v. Hood’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 2007
2 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 Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Co. v. Rayzor · Schulz v. Frank Tessman & Bro. · Baker v. Smelser · Heidenheimer & Co. v. L. A. & Ellis · McDaniel v. National Steam Laundry Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under Article 5070, supra, interest therein provided to be allowed on an open account is not recoverable from the date an account is due as damages for nonpayment, but simply as ‘compensation allowed by law * * * for the use or forbearance or detention of money’; and therefore is legal interest, in that it is interest allowed by law where the parties to a contract had failed to agree upon any particular rate of interest. Article 5069, R.S.1925. Interest sought and recovered as interest eo nomine, viz., interest in its own name, is interest specially provided for by statute, and, regardless, of the amount of such interest, same is not to be considered in determining whether or not the amount sued for is within the limit of the court’s jurisdiction . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When no specified rate of interest is agreed upon by the parties, interest at the rate of six percent per annum shall be allowed on all written contracts ascertaining the sum payable, from and after the time when the sum is due and payable; and on all open accounts, from the first day of January after the same are made. Acts 1967, 60th Leg., p. 609, ch. 274, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1967.””
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.