Pierce v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably In Re Estate of Garges (1977), Commonwealth v. Sullivan (1979)
6 federal appellate · 61 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 McGrath's Estate · Craig's Estate · Stevenson's Estate · 143 Pa. Super. 50 - Baker v. Mitchell · Bisbing's Estate
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a common law marriage is asserted, any presumption which might otherwise be indulged in, becomes immaterial when the one asserting the validity of the relationship relies upon a putative contract which is legally insufficient to establish the fact of marriage. See McDevitt's Estate, 280 Pa. 50, 52 , 124 A. 294, 295 ; In re Bisbing's Estate, 266 Pa. 529, 531 , 109 A. 670, 671 . In re Murdock's Estate, 92 Pa. Super. Ct. 275, 277 , the court said: `* * * if she herself proves that no valid marriage contract was actually entered into between them, evidence as to cohabitation and reputation goes for nothing * * *.'”
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.