Pierce v. . Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Elgar v. Elgar (1996), McNutt v. McNutt (1888)
1 federal appellate · 62 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The surrender and release, of rights to be acquired by the intended wife by the marriage relation must, however, be regarded with the most rigid scrutiny; and courts will not enforce contracts of this nature against the wife where the circumstances establish that she has been over-reached and deceived, or been induced by false representations to enter into a contract which does not express or carry out the real intention of the parties.” (p. 157.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watson v. Watson““The rule undoubtedly is, that in such a case'every presumption is against the validity of the contract, and the burden of proof is cast upon the husband, or those who represent him, in order to uphold and enforce the same as a valid and subsisting agreement.” (p. 158.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watson v. Watson
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.