Pearce v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1927
11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By looking into the pleadings, then, it is manifest beyond a doubt that the jury passed upon the mortgages, as well as on the note, and must have equally found in favor of the plaintiff upon them as for his debt. The question of law is: Shall the verdict, deficient in not expressly finding one of the issues in the case, receive the benefit of the light thus reflected upon it by the pleadings, so as to supply by intendment, that which is not expressed in it but which necessarily follows from that which is expressed, viewed in connection with the pleadings?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowles v. Belt
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.