Pierce v. Butters’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1963
17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After this case was brought to the supreme court, the defendants in error, plaintiffs below, discovered the said defects and error in their case, and with due notice to the adverse party, and .... with leave of the court below, amended the defective and erroneous proceedings in the following particulars to wit: They amended the first affidavit by filing a new and amended affidavit, stating and showing that at the time of the commencement of this suit all of the defendants were non-residents of the state, and that service of summons could not be made upon any of them within this state, and that the action was and is one to foreclose a mortgage, etc. This amended affidavit was sufficient.....Now, with these amendments, we tliink the judgment of the court below ought to be affirmed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weaver v. Lockwood
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.