Moore v. Dilworth’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Davis v. City of San Antonio (1988), Smith v. Baldwin (1980)
9 federal appellate · 104 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 Cheek v. Metzer · Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Grays · Stephenson v. Miller-Link Lumber Co. · Grayce Oil Co. v. Peterson · Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Perkins
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is essential to the validity of a contract that it be sufficiently certain to define the nature and extent of its obligations. If an agreement is so indefinite as to make it impossible for a court to fix the legal liability of the parties thereto, it cannot constitute an enforceable contract.””
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.