Pearson v. Heard’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1967
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.
Relationships
Relies on Hodges v. Denny · Winston v. Browning · Wright v. Wright · Rogers v. Peebles · Hess v. Cheney
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.
““It is well settled that, if a contract is not for the sale of a specific quantity of land, but is for the sale of a specific tract, or a designated lot, or parcel, by name or description, for a gross sum, and the transaction is bona fide, a mutual mistake as to quantity, but not as to the boundaries, will not entitle the purchaser to compensation, and will not be a ground for rescission. In such cases, where the sale is not at a specified price by the foot or acre, ‘the purchaser is entitled to the quantity contained within the designated boundaries of the grant, be it more or less, -without reference to quantity or measure of the premises which is mentioned in the contract or conveyance.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox v. Collins
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.