Perry v. Pernet’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 1986 · most notably Denny v. State Ex Inf. Brady (1932), Trotcky v. Van Sickle (1949)
52 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 People Ex Rel. Trainor v. Baker · Lillie v. Trentman · Sennott's Case · Ex parte Mooney · Lowery v. Howard
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . and the court below, under the terms of said order of commitment, on the application of appellant and notice to the party to whom the money is due, has the power to discharge him from custody on his showing that his failure to pay said amount since the commitment is due to an actual inability to do so. . . . It was said in Hendryx V. Fitzpatrick, supra, on page 814: ‘We do not mean to be understood that the court has a general discretion to annul orders passed for the benefit of a party to the suit; but that where inability is shown to comply with the order-as, for instance, insanity, if the decree requires an act to be done, or poverty, if the decree is for the payment of money—it is according to the course of the court, and of all courts, to discharge the imprisonment, of which the end is proved to be unattainable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““After imprisonment has been tried for a reasonable time and proved unfruitful as a remedy, the question can be made how and when it ought to terminate. Doubtless, there is some way to reach a case of bona fide poverty, and prevent imprisonment from becoming perpetual, or even from being unduly protracted.” •”
1 later decision 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.