Pierce v. Isaac’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably International Erectors, Inc. v. Wilhoit Steel Erectors & Rental Service (1968), 902 So. 2d 296 - Blankfeld v. Richmond Health Care, Inc. (2005)
4 federal appellate · 26 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 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Beazley · Holmberg v. Hardee Trustees · Frissell v. Nichols · Mizell Live Stock Co. v. J. J. McCaskill Co. · Clay v. Girdner
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that competent parties shall have the utmost liberty of contracting and their agreements voluntarily and fairly made will be upheld and sustained by the courts. All parties sui juris are free to make whatever contract they may choose so long as no fraud or deception is practiced and there is no infraction of law. The fact that one of the parties to a contract made a hard bargain will not alone avoid a contract.”
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.