Pearce v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
142 U.S. 28 · 1891
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1964 · most notably Board of Trade v. Christie Grain & Stock Co. (1905), Clews v. Jamieson (1901)
20 federal appellate · 11 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · Irwin v. Williar · Gelston v. Hoyt · Hopkins v. Lee · Farley v. Kittson
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if upon an issue the facts stated in the plea be determined for the defendant, they shall avail him as far as in law and equity they ought to avail him,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Sec. ISO. Whoever contracts to have or give to himself or another tho option to sell or buy, at a. future time, any grain, or other commodity, stock of any railroad or other company, or gold, or forestalls the market by spreading false rumors to influence the price of commodities therein, or corners tho market, or attempts to do so in relation to any such commodities, shall be fined not less than $ 10 nor more than §1,000 or confined in the county jail not. exceeding one year, or botli; and all contracts made in violation of this section shall be considered gambling contracts, and shall be void. “Sec. 131. All promises, notes, bills, 'bonds, covenants, contracts, agreements,, judgments, mortgages, or other securities or conveyances made, given, granted, drawn or entered into, or executed by any person whatsoever, where the, whole or any part of the consideration thereof, shall be for any money, property or other valuable thing, won by any gaming or playing at cards, dice, or other game or games, or by betting on the side or hands of any person gaming', or by wager or bet upon any race, fight, pastime, sport, l.ot, chance, casualty, election or unknown or contingent event whatever, or for the reimbursing or paying any money or property knowingly lent or advanced at the time or place of such play or bet, to any person or persons so gaming or betting, or that shall, during such play or betting, so play or bet, shall be null and void and of no effect.” ,.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clews v. Jamieson““It clearly takes from the establishment of the plea the effect it had under the old law. When, by filing a replication, issue is taken upon a plea, the facts, if proven, will now avail the defendant only so far as, in law and equity, they ought to avail him. Under the existing rule, the court may, upon final hearing, do at least what, under the old rule, might have been done when the benefit of a plea was saved to the hearing. ‘When,' says Cooper, ‘the benefit of the plea is saved to the hearing, the decision of the cause does not rest upon' the truth of the matter of the plea, but the plaintiff may avoid it by other matter, which he is at liberty to adduce.’ ””
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.