Moore v. Petty’s Empirical Analysis
135 F. 668 · 1905
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1975
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Relies on James Moody Vaughan v. Henry Northup James Moody · Noonan v. Bradley · Johnson v. Powers · Robertson v. Chapman · Morgan v. Potter
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule undoubtedly is that an executor or administrator, in his representative capacity, cannot maintain an action in the courts of any sovereignty other than that under whose laws he was appointed and qualified, without obtaining an ancillary grant of letters in the state where the action is brought, unless the right so to do is conferred upon him by the law of the forum.””
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.