Baker v. Pierson’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 1966
3 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 Broome v. Beers · Haines v. Beach · Little v. Lesia
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ He [the purchaser] does not acquire the liens of the incumbrancers who were parties, for he does not acquire their debts, and a lien separated from the debt is extinguished ; nor can he be regarded as holding their liens as a trustee, for that would render his purchase valueless, as the beneficiaries might compel him, if he were their trustee, to enforce such liens for their benefit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walsh v. Robinson
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.