Peirce v. Peirce’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2025
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 15 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 Resource Management Co. v. Weston Ranch · Zions First National Bank, N.A. v. National American Title Insurance Co. · Ashton v. Ashton · R & R Energies v. Mother Earth Industries, Inc. · Romrell v. Zions First National Bank, N.A.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he marshaling requirement applies only to challenges of factual findings, not to conclusions of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When there exists only the facade of a promise, i.e., a statement made in such vague or conditional terms that the person making it commits himself to nothing, the alleged 'promise' is said to be 'illusory.' An illusory promise neither binds the person making it, nor functions as consideration for a return promise.”) (Quotations and citations omitted.). As such, we refuse to read the Declaration in such a manner so as to produce what would manifestly be a legally indefensible result. See id. at ¶ 19 (holding that courts should”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[The tendency of the law is to avoid the finding that no contract arose due to an illusory promise when it appears that the parties intended a contract. Through a process of interpretation, in the absence of express restrictions, courts find implied promises to prevent a party's promise from being performable merely at the whim of the promisor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Markham v. Bradley
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.