Dorsey v. . Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2019
5 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The judgment, it seems, is founded upon the supposition that the contract between the life-tenant in possession and the [third party], purporting to give them the right to cut and remove the timber, had the legal effect to exempt [the third party] from liability to the [remaindermen] on such account. This was a misapprehension of the law applicable .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“merely for sale,--to sell the timber trees, and allow them to be cut down and manufactured into lumber for market[:]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“also cut and use timber appropriate for necessary fuel”
2 later decisions 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.