Pierce v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1976
5 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts will not disregard the will of the donor of property conveyed in trust for charitable uses, even in reference to the manner of appointing new trustees, but will leave the beneficiaries to pursue the method pointed out by the donor in his deeds, unless facts be shown which make such action necessary to carry out the will of the donor. Courts only appoint trustees to administer such trusts when a power to create them in some other way has not been provided, unless under facts exceptional in character.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moody v. Haas
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.