Pearson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1975 · most notably School District v. Howe (1896), Miller v. Henry (1912)
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 Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · City of New Orleans v. New Orleans Water-Works Co Conery · People ex rel. Le Roy v. Hurlbut · New Orleans v. Clark · People ex rel. Board of Park Commissioners v. Common Council
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The money was taken from the place provided by the county for keeping it without any fault on his part, and the Legislature finds that it is contrary to broad equitable principles — the ordinary principles of just and fair dealing — to compel him to stand the loss.””
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.