Ashley v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2004
4 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1601 (§ 102 of the Truth in Lending Act)
Relies on Brown v. American Transfer & Storage Co. · Shropshire v. Commerce Farm Credit Co. · Greever v. Persky · Tanner Development Co. v. Ferguson · Cochran v. American Savings & Loan Ass'n of Houston
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The subjective intent of the parties is normally immaterial in determining whether there is usury since the intent of the parties is presumed to be reflected in the documents which they sign.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]f the contract is unambiguous upon its face, the court cannot depart from the terms of the contract to make legal what the parties have made unlawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he mere 'contracting for' usurious interest is in violation of the usury statutes even though no interest was actually collected.”
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.