Pierson v. Bill’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 1994
20 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 Quinn v. Phipps · Sorrells v. McNally · Girard Trust Co. v. Tampashores Development Co. · Walker v. Landress · Wittmeir v. Leonard
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]uch proceedings in the probate court do not constitute constructive notice to subsequent purchasers for value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.