Pierce v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[I]t is the opinion of the court, that it is inconsistent with the spirit of the constitution that questions of law, and still less, questions of constitutional law, should be decided by the verdict of the jury, contrary to the instructions of the court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sparf v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1895-01-21· cited 757×
• Commonwealth v. Dickerson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-06-20· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Paulding
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-10-24· cited 47×
• State v. Cere
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1984-08-13· cited 13×
• Batre v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1850-06-15· cited 7×
• State of New Hampshire v. Richard Paul
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2014-10-24· cited 6×
• United States v. Courtney
  D. New Mexico· 2013-05-21· cited 6×
• State v. Pike
  Superior Court of New Hampshire· 1844-07-15· cited 3×
• Wyley v. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary
  D. Maryland· 1966-05-18· cited 2×
• United States v. Edwards
  D. New Mexico· 2017-08-22· cited 1×
• State v. Moore
  Superior Court of New Hampshire· 1843-12-15· cited 1×
• Sears Roebuck & Co v W/S Lebanon et al
  D. New Hampshire· 2017-09-06· cited 1×
• State of New Hampshire v. Brian Eldridge
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2020-02-19
• United States v. Baker
  D. New Mexico· 2018-10-25

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Merrill v. Sherburne
  Superior Court of New Hampshire· 1818-09-15· cited 44×
• State v. Rollins
  Superior Court of New Hampshire· 1837-12-15· cited 17×
• State v. Burnham
  Superior Court of New Hampshire· 1837-12-15· cited 9×
• State v. Prescott
  Superior Court of New Hampshire· 1834-12-15· cited 4×