4 Ill. 2d 497 - Pierce v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2020
12 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 Hester v. Sawyers · Orchard v. Wright-Dalton-Bell-Anchor Store Co. · The Mayor, C., of New-York v. . Mabie · Hill v. Reno · Murphy v. Superior Court
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When any lands, tenements or hereditaments, shall be held in joint tenancy, tenancy in common or coparcenary, whether such right or title be derived by purchase, devise or descent, or whether any, all or a part of such claimants be of full age or minors, it shall be lawful for any one or more of the persons interested, by-themselves,- if of-full-ageror by- their- guardians, if miners,- to present to the circuit court of the county where such lands or tenements lie, or where the lands or tenements lie in different-eounties^in — the-circuit-court-of the county in which the major part of such lands lie; but if-the-major — part-of such lands do not lie in any one-eoanty-^then-to the circuit court of any county in which any-of-such- lands- lie, their petition, praying for a division and partition of such premises, according to the respective rights of the parties interested therein, and for a sale thereof, if it shall appear that partition cannot be made without great prejudice to the owners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sims v. Sims“all joint-tenants and tenants in common, and every of them, which now hold or hereafter shall hold jointly or in common for term of life, year or years, or joint-tenants or tenants in common, where some of them shall have estate or estates for term of life or years, with the other that have or shall have estate or estates of inheritance or freehold in any manors, lands, tenements, or heredita-ments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that no such partition, between joint tenants or tenants in common, who hold or shall hold estates for life or years, with others holding equal or greater estate, shall prejudice any entitled to the reversion or remainder, after the death of the tenants for life, or after the expiration of the years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sims v. Sims
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.