Parmelee v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1987
1 federal appellate · 13 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 Parmelee v. Lawrence · Sutphen v. Cushman · Stockham v. Munson · Nichols v. Stewart · Dooley v. Stipp
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We may agree with counsel to this extent — that the legislature can not [sic] make valid a contract which was unlawful at the time it was made, and hence if this act of 1867 had authorized the recovery of twelve per cent, [sic] instead of ten [which was the legal rate at the time of the contract], we might have said that a contract for twelve per cent, [sic] interest was then forbidden by law, and the legislature could not authorize it to be enforced. But this they have not attempted.” 48 Ill. 331, 340-41 .”
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.