Pierson v. Dorff’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2000
1 federal appellate · 13 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 Glock v. Howard & Wilson Colony Co. · Connihan v. Thompson · Woodman v. Blue Grass Land Co. · Inglis v. Fohey · Harney v. Burhans
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From the foregoing it conclusively appears that the equitable remedy for specific performance and the legal remedy to recover damages are not inconsistent, especially where the action to recover damages is prosecuted after the abandonment of a plea for specific performance.”
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.