Roberts v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1984
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The note sued on was payable six months after date without interest. It is settled law that where a contract bears an agreed rate of interest from date, it will bear the same rate after maturity. But it has never been held that if a note expressly provides that it shall carry no interest from date, that interest shall not be calculated upon it after maturity. It would require an express contract in plain terms to this effect, or the circumstances should clearly demand such a construction, to deprive the payee of his interest on such a contract after it became overdue. ‘When expressed, the words used by the parties determine their rights; and, if they require construction, this is generally, if not always, in favor of interest.’ 2 Pars, on Bills and Notes, 392.””
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.