Pierse v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1942
19 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 Oliver v. Wilson · Tevis v. Hughes · Scott v. Macy · Polock v. Hunt · Wood v. Squires
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under a statute which provides that The plaintiff, before or during the trial, should be permitted to amend any defects or form in the original papers/ it was held that a defective bond might, be amended by the substitution of a new and perfect one, and that a defect in the bond would not be a sufficient cause for quashing the proceedings, unless an opportunity were given to the plaintiff to execute a perfect, bond and he declined doing so”—”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. McCrady““That if the defendant recover judgment in said action, or if the court shall finally decide that the plaintiff was not entitled to an attachment, the plaintiff will pay all costs that may be awarded to the said defendant, and all damages he may sustain by the wrongful suing out ,of the attachment”—”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. McCrady““The condition of such an undertaking shall be to the effect that if the defendant recover judgment, or if the court shall finally decide that the plaintiff was not entitled to an attachment, the plaintiff will pay all damages.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. McCrady
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.