Peters v. Pearce’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1959 · most notably Saxton v. Plum Orchards, Inc. (1949), Mercer v. Tremont G. Ry. Co. (1944)
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Hargreaves v. Deacon · Tomlinson v. Vicksburg
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is danger in dealing with the question of liability for injury to children of confounding legal obligations with those sentiments which are independent of the law, and rest merely on grounds of feeling, or moral consideration.” 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morton v. Rome
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.