Moore v. Jenkins’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Pollack v. Pollack (1931), Pollack v. Pollack (1932)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The intention to abandon the contract at some future date is no breach of it; but, when that intention is declared in positive terms and unconditionally, it has the effect, in so far as the promisor is able to do so, to repudiate the contract itself, and to terminate the contractual relations between the parties. This affords to the other party the opportunity to accept the declarations, if he chooses to do so, and thus make effective the declarations of intention not to perform, rendering the contract thereby one that is broken on the part of the promisor himself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cole v. McNay““The effect of an express and unconditional renunciation.of his contract, by defendant in error, was to entitle plaintiffs in error to treat the contract as terminated if they so desired.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cole v. McNay
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.