Moore v. Hechinger’s Empirical Analysis
127 F.2d 746 · 1942
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Potomac Electric Power Co. v. Wynn (1964), United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. United States (1945)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901
Relies on Aetna Life Insurance v. Moses · Doleman v. Levine · 40 F. Supp. 11 - McWhirter v. Otis Elevator Co. · Weldon v. United States · Hunt v. Bank Line, Ltd.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Furthermore, reason compels this conclusion, for if the employee is a necessary or proper party, the freedom of action which the statute vests in the employer in the circumstances we are considering would be lost. He could neither dismiss, settle, nor prosecute over the objection of his co-plaintiffs. His hands would be tied, and the thing which the statute gives him absolutely would be subject to the control of another. Such a result the language of the statute does not warrant.””
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.