Peairs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1991
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 Morrison v. People of State of California · Alonzo Bailey v. State of Alabama · Bandini Petroleum Co. v. Superior Court · Pollock v. Williams · 53 Cal. App. 45 - People v. Holder
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any original or principal contractor or his assignee who shall be paid the contract price or any portion thereof, and who shall fail or refuse to discharge the liens created by this section, to the extent of the contract price received by him, shall be deemed guilty of an offense and punishable as follows.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Riggs“No person shall be imprisoned for debt in any civil action, on mesne or final process, unless in cases of fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Riggs
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.