Moffitt v. Hereford’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 1981 · most notably Commonwealth of Virginia v. State of West Virginia (1915), Linders v. Linders (1947)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 11 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 McCullough v. Phœnix Insurance · Brinkerhoff-Farris Trust & Savings Co. v. Home Lumber Co. · Dana v. . Fiedler · Hewitt v. Steele · 25 N.J. Eq. 144 - Douglas v. Merceles
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The presumption is that the court, in weighing the evidence, was governed by correct rules of law. Hence it is held that the same rules of strictness are not enforced, on appeals, where the trial was by the court.”
1 later decision 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.