Pierce v. Read’s Empirical Analysis
1821
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently August 1876
3 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.
“would think of looking into the condition of a bail bond in order to ascertain the nature of the contract. Indeed, a bail bond is rarely actually taken by the sheriff in this state. The bail, instead of executing a bond, put their names on the back of the writ, and thereby give their assent to the taking upon themselves the liabilities of bail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jacobs v. Stevens“The real contract into which bail enter is prescribed by statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jacobs v. Stevens“In this state bail is given to the sheriff by bond;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jacobs v. Stevens
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.