penitent
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 23 U.S. 367 - De Wolf v. Johnson · 1825Most cited · 142 citing opinions
purged usury
Courts of justice will not shut the door in the face of the penitent; and hence it has been decided... that although a contract be in its inception usurious, a subsequent agreement to free it from the illegal incident shall make it good.
How often courts cite the case defining “penitent”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “penitent” — 142 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.