Moore v. Byrum’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 1934
1 federal appellate · 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.
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.
““I * * * do hereby give to Joseph. Byrum, Jr., a mortgage on all my cotton, corn, and wheat that I may raise during the year 1876, to secure the payment oí the above note this day given by me; and in default of payment by the 1st of November next, then I authorize the said Byrum to take all the crops raised by me, or any other person he may Select so to do.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cozart v. Barnes
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.