Gilbert v. Hudgens’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 1972
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Wilson v. J. E. French Co. · Beneficial Loan & Investment Co. v. Ira · Atlas Securities Co. v. Copeland · McCraw v. Welch · Rice v. Franklin Loan & Finance Co.
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.
“Parties are entitled, irrespective of usury statutes, to make such `spread' as they may agree upon between cash and credit price, and the percentage of that spread is immaterial. This rule is particulary [particularly] applicable to credit sales of rapidly depreciating property, such as automobiles, when the down payment is small and the purchaser takes possession. Davidson v. Davis , 59 Fla. 476 , 52 So. 139 , 28 L.R.A. (N.S.) 102; Atlas Co. v. Copeland , 124 Kan. 393 , 260 Pac. 659 ; Wilson v. J. E. French Co. , 214 Cal. 188 , 4 P.2d 537 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The original note provided for certain penalties in case of default in payments. The universal rule seems to be that such provisions do not make the contract usurious.””
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.