Moon v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2009
22 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 Pacific Palisades Ass'n v. City of Huntington Beach · Whitney v. City of Port Huron · Morrison v. Farnell · Graham v. City of Carondelet · City of Pensacola v. Southern Bell Telephone Co.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The City of Orlando is hereby divided' into ten (10) districts aforesaid and the boundaries- of such districts are shown upon the map attached hereto and made a part of this ordinance being designated as the ‘District Map’ and said map and all the notations, references and other information shown thereon shall be as much a part of this ordinance as if the matters and information set forth by said map were all fully described herein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Because of the lack of definiteness of description and location of the several zones, the ordinance was ineffectual to establish the several zones.”
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.