Moore v. Logan’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 2012
4 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 Booth v. City of Dallas · Capen v. City of Portland · City of Belton v. Ellis · Devin v. McCoy
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no set definition of what constitutes a “public utility,” and in fact it would be difficult to construct one that would fit every conceivable case. “Utility” means the state or quality of being useful, hence the expression “public utility” means the state or quality of being useful to the public, generally used in the sense of “public use,” carrying with it the duty to serve the public and treat all alike, and precludes the idea of service which is private in its nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The collection and disposal of garbage in a city is a very important service, as much so as the furnishing of pure and wholesome water or an efficient sewerage system. It requires a vast physical equipment, including an incinerator, all owned and operated by the city, and we think must be held to be a public utility of the city.”
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.