Pearson v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 2015
2 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 Long Park, Inc. v. Trenton-New Brunswick Theatres Co. · Nance Ex Rel. Nance v. Westside Hospital · Loftin v. Langsdon · James Cable Partners, L.P. v. City of Jamestown
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from the act taken as a whole, viewing the legislation in light of its general purpose.”
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.