Pearcy v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2024
18 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 Arnette v. Arnette · Walker v. Anderson · Davis v. Davis · Morrill v. Douglass · Irwin v. Irwin
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“our only function on appeal is to ascertain whether there is substantial competent evidence supporting, or tending to support, the finding as made and not whether some evidence appears in the record which would have supported a contrary finding had the trial court seen fit to make one”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Perry
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.