Pierce v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2019
10 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 Friar v. Baldridge · Little Rock Granite Co. v. Shall · Clear Creek Oil & Gas Co. v. Brunk · Williams v. Shaver · Wales-Riggs Plantations v. Banks
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A court of equity, even in the absence of special circumstances of fraud, accident, or mistake, may relieve against a forfeiture incurred by the breach of a covenant to pay rent, on the payment or tender of all arrears of rent and interest by a defaulting lessee. The grounds upon which a court of equity proceeds in this connection are: That the rent is the object of the parties, and the forfeiture only an incident intended to secure its payment ; that the measure of damages is fixed and certain; and that when the principal and interest are paid, the compensation is complete. This relief may be granted where there is a mere power of re-entry, and it has been granted in various situations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duncan v. Malcomb
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.