Pearce v. Atwood

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• preexisting English statutes are repealed when Legislature enacts similar statute
• “Breaches of the peace comprise not only cases of actual violence to the person of another, but any unlawful acts, tending to produce an actual breach of the peace; whether the peace of the public, or an individual, be in fact disturbed or not.”
• “Breaches of the peace comprise not only cases of actual violence to the person of another, but any unlawful acts, tending to produce an actual breach of the peace; whether the peace of the public, or an individual, be in fact disturbed or not.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

59 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• McGowan v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1961-05-29· cited 3,439×
• Tumey v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1927-03-14· cited 2,714×
• Rickey I. Kanter v. William P. Barr
  Seventh Circuit· 2019-03-15· cited 216×
• Gallagher v. Crown Kosher Super Market of Massachusetts, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1961-05-29· cited 138×
• Allen v. Duffie
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1880-02-11· cited 51×
• McCoy v. Handlin
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1915-06-18· cited 47×
• Rash v. Allen
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1910-06-07· cited 36×
• Ex parte Tice
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1897-08-31· cited 36×
• Meyer v. City of San Diego
  California Supreme Court· 1898-05-31· cited 34×
• Brocklehurst & Potter Co. v. Marsch
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1916-09-13· cited 33×
• Tootle v. Berkley
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1899-04-08· cited 32×
• Chase v. Ingalls
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1867-10-15· cited 25×
• City of Detroit v. Detroit City Ry. Co.
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Michigan· 1893-01-05· cited 23×
• Weldon v. Colquitt
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1879-02-15· cited 21×
• Tellefsen v. Fee
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1897-03-23· cited 21×
• Village of Monroeville v. Ward
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1971-07-14· cited 21×
• Crown Kosher Super Market of Mass., Inc. v. Gallagher
  D. Massachusetts· 1959-07-20· cited 20×
• Doyle v. Lynn & Boston Railroad
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1875-09-03· cited 20×
• Raymond Holloway, Jr. v. Attorney General United States
  Third Circuit· 2020-01-17· cited 18×
• Adams v. Minor
  California Supreme Court· 1898-07-01· cited 16×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ryan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1809-03-15· cited 45×