Pierson v. Carmouche’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1972
2 federal appellate · 14 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 National Bank of Commerce v. Sullivan · Hewett v. Williams · Dreyfous v. Cade · 52 La. Ann. 2139 - Joseph Weill & Co. v. Kent · 22 La. Ann. 438 - Bres v. Cowan
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'May a purchaser on credit of movable property validly give it in pledge to a third person, who knows that he has not paid the price (but is otherwise in good faith), so as to vest in the pledgee a right superior to that of the vendor, whose privilege thereupon ceases by reason of the property having passed out of the possession of the vendee?'”
2 later decisions 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.