McCardle v. Nagim’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1983
6 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 Bank of Baton Rouge v. Hendrix · Haven v. Munson · Lawton v. Scott · Karno's v. Schneider · Bellows, Exr. v. Blake
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In case this note should be placed in the hands of an attorney, after its maturity, to institute legal proceedings to recover the amount thereof, or any part hereof, in principal or interest, or to protect the interest of the holder hereof, or in case the same should be placed in the hands of an attorney for collection, compromise or other action, the makers(s) and endorsers^) bind(s) itself to pay the fees of the attorney who may be employed for the purpose, which fees are hereby fixed at ten (10)% on the amount due or sued for, or claimed or sought to be protected, preserved or enforced, or $50.00 whichever shall be greater.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Counsel for plaintiffs and defendant in their original petition and answer and in their briefs filed in this court, treated this litigation as a suit on the notes. (Italics supplied.) In our opinion they were in error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An accommodation maker, on paying a note, does not have a cause of action against the real maker of the note on the note as such, [italics ours] his remedy being on the implied contract of reimbursement.””
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.