Pierson v. Canfield’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably Smith v. Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Phoenix (1960), O'Malley v. Central Methodist Church (1948)
26 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 Werner v. Graham · Parsons v. Hunt · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Mahaffey · Mulligan v. Jordan · Roberts v. Scull
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the instrument, or instruments, exchanged and forming a part of the transaction constitute the final and exclusive evidence of the intent of the parties and of the covenants entered into.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘The above conditions, and each of them, shall run with said property, and bind ,the ,same in the hands of all subsequent owners; however remote; and, should any of said conditions at. any time be violated, the title to said property shall revert to the grantors herein, their heirs or assigns, as the case may be.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.