Young v. Godbe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 federal appellate · 8 district · 16 state decisions

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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]f a debt ought to be paid at a particular time, and is not, owing to the default of the debtor, the creditor is entitled to interest from that time by way of compensation for the delay in payment. And if the account be stated, as the evidence went to show was the case here, interest begins to run at once.... If there is no statute on the subject, interest will be allowed by way of damages for unreasonably withholding payment of an overdue account.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 342 F. Supp. 3d 1 - Bazarian Int'l Fin. Assocs., LLC v. Desarrollos Hotelco, C.A. · 393 F. Supp. 1165 - Davis Cattle Co., Inc. v. Great Western Sugar Company

2. ““In a case where interest as a general thing is due (as, ex. gr., in the case of an account stated), the fact that there may be no statute in the place where the account is settled and the transaction takes place does not prevent the recovery of interest. In such a case interest at a reasonable rate, and conforming to the custom which obtains in the community in dealings of the' same character, will be allowed 'by way of damages for unreasonably withholding an overdue account.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tredegar Co. v. Seaboard Air Line Ry.