Moore v. . Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently May 1986 · most notably Irving v. . Campbell (1890), Haffey v. . Lynch (1894)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 100 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Jeffries v. Jeffries · Murray v. . Harway · Burwell v. . Jackson · Dobbs v. Norcross · Jordan v. . Poillon
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A purchaser will not generally be compelled to take a title when there is a defect in the record title which can be cured only by a resort to paroi evidence, or when there is an apparent incumbrance which can be removed or defeated only by such evidence."””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ruess v. Ewen · Kountze v. Helmuth““The vendors should be at the expense of clearing the title of this cloud, and it is not just that they-should cast that burden upon the vendee, and require him to take an unmarketable title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reynolds v. Strong
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.