Moore v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1997
15 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 Miller v. West Palm Beach Atlantic National Bank · Byrd v. Byrd
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are not unmindful of the rule that costs in equity may be awarded in the sound discretion of the Chancellor; at the same time there must be a basis on which to predicate the Chancellor’s discretion. It must have some reason or something on which to stand.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sims v. Barnes
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.