In re Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
157 F. 757 · 1907
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1927
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the trustee in bankruptcy has no greater right or title than the bankrupt had has been so often declared in eases like this and in cases of conditional sale that citations are unnecessary.””
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.