Moore v. Simonds’s Empirical Analysis
100 U.S. 145 · 1879
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1993 · most notably Estis v. Trabue (1888), Gumbel v. Pitkin (1885)
10 federal appellate · 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 The Protector
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are clear, therefore, that the defect is one that may be amended under the law as it now stands, and for that reason we will not dismiss the appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Estis v. Trabue
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.