Moore v. Crawford’s Empirical Analysis
130 U.S. 122 · 1889
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 13 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 210 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Santa Fe Industries, Inc. v. Green (1977), Securities & Exchange Commission v. Capital Gains Research Bureau, Inc. (1963)
47 federal appellate · 13 district · 87 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 Jeremian Van Rensselaer v. Philip Kearney · Glass v. Hulbert · Williams v. Morris · Howland v. Blake
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 210 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever the legal title to property is obtained through means or under circumstances 'which render it unconseientious for the holder of the legal title to retain and enjoy the beneficial interest, equity impresses a constructive trust on the property thus acquired in favor of the one who is truly and equitably entitled to the same, although he may never, perhaps, have had any legal estate therein; and a court of equity has jurisdiction to reach the property either in the hands of the original wrongdoer, or in the hands of any subsequent holder, until a purchaser of it in good faith and without notice acquires a higher right and takes the property relieved from the trust.* Pomeroy, Eq. Jur. § 1053.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Fraud indeed, in the sense of a court of equity properly includes all acts, omissions, and concealments which involve a breach of legal or equitable duty, trust, or confidence justly reposed and are injurious to another, or by which an undue and unconscientious advantage is taken of another. And courts of equity will not only interfere in cases of fraud to set aside acts done, but they will also, if acts have by fraud been prevented from being done by 1he parties, interfere and treat the case exactly as if the acts had been done.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Fraud, indeed, in the sense of a court of equity properly includes all acts, omissions and concealments which involve a breach of legal or equitable duty, trust, or confidence, justly reposed, and are injurious to another, or by which an undue and unconscientious advantage is taken of another.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.