Townsend v. Riley’s Empirical Analysis
1865
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1925
1 federal appellate · 15 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 Carlton v. Patterson · Dean v. Williams · Stoughton v. Lynch · Reed v. Spaulding · Peirce v. Rowe
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general principle in relation to contracts made in one place, to be performed in another, is well settled. They are to be governed by the law of the place of performance, and, if tlie interest allowed by the place of performance is higher than that permitted at the place of contract, the parties may stipulate for the higher interest without incurring the penalties of usury. .The converse of this proposition is also well settled. If the rate of interest be higher at the place of contract than at the place of performance, the parties may lawfully contract in that case also for the higher rate. These rules aré subject to the qualification that the parties act in good faith, and that the form of the transaction is not adopted to disguise its real character.””
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.