Pierce v. . Faison’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1971
2 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right of action for legacies and distributive shares, or to have an accounting with an executor and a settlement, accrues two years from his qualification. . . . The executor is required to distribute and pay over the assets to those entitled thereto at that time, and if he fails to do so, they may sue for the same. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. Bryson
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.